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boy, Tulip eaters was missing a lot for me, It lacked in realism for sure, But it seemed rather cheesy and so far off I had no idea what I was getting into, More then once I wanted to put the book down to stop reading but I chugged through in the hopes maybe it would be better.
I really did not like this book, It was extremely confusing, the characters were bland and one dimensional, and it felt like a really bad soap opera, A woman comes home to find her mother murdered and her baby missing Who did it And why Unsuspensefully, you will find out in a very short time, yet the book dragged on and on and on.
The book supposedly took place in "Houston" yet the characters were in Amsterdam It was hard to follow to be sure, and it was a chore to read.
Juvenile writing, implausible plot, showing Holocaust survivors as hatredcrazed revenge seekers, One of the most superficial novels about WWII I have ever read, Abandoning at, and feeling ashamed I've gotten this far, Book club was certainly united about this one, The main problem with this book is, the history isn't correct and the charaters remain very very flat,
No depth in the characters, it was already a highly unlikly story, but without the depth of characters it is just a strange story.
Pity, I expected more of it Our book club chose this book for this month's discussion, If it hadn't been for that, I would not have finished reading it, It is poorly written, the characters are not well developed and their actions and dialogs are not believable, The plot is also not plausible, Our entire group felt the same way, Nora de Jong returns home to find her mother murdered and her baby missing, Frustrated with the lack of developments from the police department Nora decides to find her baby on her own, In doing so she discovers family secrets that change everything she thinks she knows,
I loved Those that Save Us by Jenna Bloom and Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay and was really hoping for a similar read with a World War II theme.
Unfortunately, this book fell far short and I struggled to get through it,
My main issue with the novel was the writing, I found it to be very juvenile and it did not convey the emotion or depth the novel should have had.

Immediately, in the first chapter when Nora discovered her deceased mother the writing threw me off, Passages like, "Nora tried to push the gray lumps back into her mother's skull, They felt like buttery worms and smelled like spoiled eggs, " were unnecessary and unrealistic. Often times through out the novel the author became very descriptive but it did nothing to convey emotion or depth in a character, it seemed like she was trying to hard.

In other instances the dialogue between characters and inner dialogue was forced and very simplistic or stereotypical,
Nora de Jong was not a fully fleshed out character, She never seemed to be grieving or the distraught mother of a missing child, She was certainly frantic and very focused on her research of her family secrets but she seemed too focused on that, Her reaction to finding her dead mother and eventually her missing baby was odd and once the investigator came it got even worse.
Nora and her friend were allowed to remain in the home and meander through the crime scene repeatedly, eventually having tea in the kitchen while the investigation continued.
I found this highly unlikely, Later, when the detective comes back for a follow up, he and Nora have coffee in the living room where the mother died, a blue blanket thrown over the blood and brains on the carpet.
Again, who would stay in a home after that "awful day" as it was often referred to,
When Nora went to Amsterdam to search for the kidnapper she became even more unbelievable as a mother of a missing child, focused on her research and family secrets and eventually her former lover.
At one point she is sipping wine in a bar thinking about how relaxed she is, totally unrealistic,
Then there is Nico, he former lover and as it turns out the child's father, Conveniently, he is the director of the historical society Nora needs to do her research at, She left Nico after he refused to move to the U, S. with her where she had a neuro surgery fellowship and soon after arriving in Houston she found out she was pregnant and decided to not reveal this to Nico.
He has since remarried but that doesn't stop the feelings between the two and neither does her confession of a shared child.
I found their relationship to be very shallow and Nico unbelievable as a father denied his baby,
The supporting characters Amarissa, Ariel and Dirk were very one dimensional and stereotypical as well and did little to improve the story, I really hated Amarissa not just because she was a horrible person but also because she was a very very cliche character.

The premise of this book was very interesting, the title interesting and the preface got my hopes up, the actual story disappointed.
I would like to give this story idea to other authors and see how differently it could have played out, to see it reach its potential.


I received a copy of this novel from Net Galley in exchange for a fair review A friend of mine purchased this book for me.
And while it always hard to pick a book for another, she did well!
I enjoyed the thrill ride of this book! I am always intrigued with the Holocaust and it seems every book I read about it historical fiction I learn a little bit more.
This was a different spin on things as this was

more about a vengeance that span thirty years! Basically a "sins of your father" sort of book.
It did keep me coming back for more! And I was pretty much hooked in the first chapter, . .
I would recommend this book to any who like historical fiction Dutch Nazi's with mystery and thrill!
,Parts of this book were very interesting, but again I liked the past story better than the present one, That is always the danger, in my opinion, when an author chooses this type of plot structure, It seems to be very difficult to make both stories equal, at least in all the novels I have read of this nature, one always won over the other.
That said, I learned about a time I knew little about in a country that is not generally written about extensively, The writing was okay, was hoping it would be much stronger as I read this author's first novel sitelinkSaving Maxand thought the writing in that one was better.
Anyway I did love reading about the Dutch occupation, but for me the rest was just okay, .