Traitor: A Novel of World War II

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Traitor: A Novel of World War II

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Bestselling author Elizabeth Wein describes Traitor as a piercing and bittersweet story of unflinching loyalty, and that is precisely what it is. For example, even though I subsist off of candy and pizza, like a child with credit card access, I really am a big fan of brussels sprouts. I’m gonna chalk this up as a “it’s not you, it’s me” scenario. Because by all rights this should’ve been a great book—it starts off fast and doesn’t let up. It’s a compelling historical fiction about a time period/battle I don’t know much about. A piercing and bittersweet story of unflinching loyalty. I think Tolya has left my heart a little damaged forever.” —Elizabeth Wein, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Code Name Verity and The Enigma Game

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I have tried to read this book in three different sittings, but clearly this book just isn't for me. I don't think there's anything wrong with the book. This was marketed as a fresh take on WWII era books. Normally, I steer clear of WWII books because the majority of them are just retelling the same story. I thought I'd give this one a try. I fell for marketing though because there was nothing new here. Engrossing and exciting . . . Amanda McCrina's war-torn, historical thriller PUSHES YOU OFF THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT as alliances twist and surprises loom.” Wow. Just wow. I will need days, weeks, maybe months for my heart to stop aching after Amanda McCrina’s Traitor. It’s that breathtaking and heartbreaking and brilliant. Amanda McCrina writes about young men who are forced to make impossible choices under heart wrenching circumstances, and she does so in a sober manner. Her prose is tight but full of subtext. Her voice is somber, but profound emotions stir beneath the surface.Plus all the secondary characters (the women, basically) bounced in and out of the storyline so randomly that I couldn’t remember who was who. It didn’t help that a few of them showed up in both timelines to thoroughly confuse me about who knew who. Poland, 1944. After the Soviet liberation of Lwow from Germany, the city remains a battleground between resistance fighters and insurgent armies, its loyalties torn between Poland and Ukraine. Seventeen-year-old Tolya Korolenko is half Ukrainian, half Polish, and he joined the Soviet Red Army to keep himself alive and fed. When he not-quite-accidentally shoots his unit’s political officer in the street, he’s rescued by a squad of Ukrainian freedom fighters. They might have saved him, but Tolya doesn’t trust them. He especially doesn’t trust Solovey, the squad’s war-scarred young leader, who has plenty of secrets of his own.Then a betrayal sends them both on the run. And in a city where loyalty comes second to self-preservation, a traitor can be an enemy or a savior–or sometimes both. Traitor by Amanda McCrina – eBook Details Disclaimer: I received this book from Netgalley. This has not impacted my review which is unbiased and honest.)

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Finally, the book is crying out for a sequel! It doesn't end on an awful cliffhanger, but I really wanted to know what would happen next.He knew how he would die for it—piece by piece, in the dark, in the basement of Brygidki prison—and he knew what his death sentence would say: Tolya Korolenko, traitor to the motherland. That was how his father had died (not in the Brygidki, but in a Soviet prison just the same), and that was what his father’s sentence had said because his father had been Ukrainian and a Soviet citizen. His Polish mother they’d shot against a wall—no sentence, no interrogation. She hadn’t been a traitor to the motherland, only an enemy. The complexity of the historical situation makes Traitor an intricate story. I recommend reading the historical notes first, to get a sense of the situation. But I wholeheartedly recommend this novel for everyone who enjoys stories from World War Two. this is a dual perspective historical thriller set in an eastern european city during world war two with ukrainian, polish, russian, and german words and names, which i read half as a physical copy and half as an audiobook.

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Do you understand? It’s not safe here.” Somebody had probably heard the shots. “Where do you live? I’ll take you there.” The dialogue was really great too. I liked the interrogations, as they felt realistic, and I liked the humor in the dialogue, especially in Aleksey’s chapters when he is talking to Mykola. As mentioned, the dual POV works for this novel, and the two points of view we see are Tolya (who is in third person) and Aleksey (who is in first person.) One of the main characters, and the first that we follow, is 17-year-old Tolya who has been conscripted into the Soviet Red Army, hiding the fact that he is half-Polish, half-Ukrainian. The exploration of this complicated ethnic identity becomes one of the threads woven through the book in a world where Poles and Ukrainians are engaging in ethnic warfare and Tolya is caught between two worlds. Not to mention an array of splintered factions and resistance groups, double-agents, differing priorities, and outside influences. It's messy, not the neat and clean narrative of the Western heroes versus the evil Nazi's. But I think it's a story worth telling and one we can learn from. Another example: I recently moved across the country and went from having about 800 books with me to a couple dozen, and I haven’t even cried about it. Yet.I’m going to try to keep this spoiler free. The title is perfect for this book, in my opinion. It fits so many aspects of the novel, not just the betrayal mentioned in the book summary. The point of the story is to shed light on the complex history of Lwow, which was in the hands of different nations and its history is probably unknown to most of the people outside Eastern Europe. The shifting powers meant you had to be careful who you associated yourself with. Mrs. Kijek was one of my heroes. Honestly, Solovey was one, too. As for Tolya and Mykola, they both broke my heart. (My sister told me she had nightmares about poor little Mykola.)



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