His Watchful Eye by Jack Cavanaugh

His Watchful Eye Reviews

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  Eva-Joy

  *bawls*
  
  I hope to write books half this good someday.
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  Jesseca Wheaton

  Nooo!!!!! How in the world did it end like this?!?!? Augh! I NEED the 3rd book! Like, now!
  
  *ahem* okay, I guess I should calm down.
  
  This book was so good! There were many times where I had no idea how in the world it would all get wrapped up. In the end, I guess it still didn't. It was probably the worst cliffhanger ending I've read in my entire life.
  
  This book just had so many emotions running through it. One minute you would be laughing, the next you were crying, and then you just wanted to throw the book across the room.
  It was so good to be reunited with the characters from the first book. Konrad, Ernst, Neff, Lisette, Willi and Gail as well as Mady and Josef.
  
  Konrad's journey through out the book along with Lisette's was so sweet, yet at the same time it was hard to read at times. It was completely heart-wrenching all they went through.
  The historical accuracy and background was so amazing! When I feel like I'm standing in the buildings in bombed-out Berlin and accompanying the main character on a mission, then you know the author has done a good job! I also may have a slight crush on Konrad. . .something had better change in the 3rd book!!
  
  So, yeah. I loved the book and can' wait to start the last one!! :)
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  Rebekah Duncan

  I didn't think this could be any better than the first book, but it was!! I cried just as hard and was just as amazed by the plot and characters as the first one. I simply cannot say how much I love this book. Konrad... *please excuse me while I go sob in a corner* It's too much!!! Lisette is so sweet and patient, and I love Neff!! 😭 The ending is sooo sweet and sooo sad and it's a horrible cliffhanger!! This series literally ripped my heart and smushed it to pieces but I love it so much haha. My mom kept commenting on how depressed I was and I was like, "It's this blessed book!"😂 But even so, it's worth the pain. 5 stars!!
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  Kaitlyn Krispense

  *takes a deep breath*
  *takes another*
  *and another*
  
  Wow. That was a ride.
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  Crystal

  Another hear.t-stopping read by a great author. Picking up where While Mortals Sleep left off, the story of the Schumacher family continues, adding to it the stories of the Youth group as they grow up and learn life's lessons the hard way in Hitler's war-torn Germany. As Josef weakens, Konrad's resolve grows. can't wait to read book 3 in this trilogy
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  Sherry Ledet

  This is book #1 of this series. It is about a minister, and a group of teen boys who are in Hitler's Nazi Youth and also the church youth group. The story begins with the fall of the Berlin Wall, then begins in 1940 Christmas with a party for the kids at the minister's home.
  This book is very well written. I recommend it to those readers who enjoy history and the events in Germany in WW2.
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  Mimi

  Second in series and well done!!
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  Melissa

  (Written August 30, 2003)
  Konrad was just a boy when he joined Hitler’s youth movement. Now he is a man, and all the more responsible for his choices. He persuades his friend, Neff, to join the army with him, and they go off together, toting gun and camera.
  
  Back at the Schumachers’ home, Lisette waits anxiously for Konrad. She has her own problems, too, as she works as a secretary. The boss, a married man, loves to feast his eyes on his secretaries.
  
  One day when bombings are close overhead, Lisette rescues a young child from a rubble heap. The child has a new home with the Schumacher’s already large house of elsewhere-unwanted children.
  
  When terrible things begin to happen in the war, Konrad realizes his captain (?) has become a bloodthirsty man. Leaving the army a traitor, he goes back home pretending all is well. Pastor Schumacher knows differently. Konrad tells the pastor what happened, and what he intends to do about Hitler, the plight of the nation. Resolved, Konrad arms himself to assassinate Hitler, leaving Lisette behind once again.
  
  Will Konrad strike the serpent and become just like him?
  
  In another part of the country, childhood friend, Ernst, is a scientist. One day, Ernst meets a beautiful secretary and falls in love. Only she is French, and hates Germans.
  
  With numerous twists and emotionally charged scenes, Jack Cavanaugh has once again created a masterpiece. I didn’t want to put this book down, and I didn’t want it to end! I’m impatiently waiting for Book 3!
  
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  Pygmy

  Bleh, Christian fiction drek. Since this is Christian fiction, no flaming poos will be assigned, but this book fails by being haplessly mediocre, with zero tension/excitement to move the plodding characters through the plot. Backstory and motivations are info-dumped left and right in boring expository lumps. The females are typical Christian fiction creations; nice, bland creampuffs for God. And the guys...well, they're creampuffs too.
  
  Perhaps it doesn't help that this book is not standalone, but a sequel that assumes foreknowledge of a lot of the characters emotional development. I didn't get to see any of the motivational conflict I was hoping to see with the SS sniper character having to choose between his loyalties and his morality. I didn't get a powerful character who struggles and makes his own decisions. Instead I got a boy who sort of goes with the flow and rolls wherever the winds buffet him. Supposedly he was some sort of commanding officer. HA! The guy had so little charisma, I couldn't believe anyone would follow his orders. Maybe he acts with more confidence later on; but I'm not going to find out since I'm not finishing this.
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  Pegg

  Another powerful, insightful, and disturbing book about German Christians during WWII. I couldn't put it down. In fact, I finished it two days ago and didn't stop to write this review - I jumped right into book #3! Jack Cavanaugh does such a good job of explaining the inexplicable. How could young people, raised in Christ's Church, become Nazi youth and then soldiers involved in unspeakable acts against humanity? What caused them to go this way - and what brought some of them back? This is another book worth your time to read and digest. Parts of it are disturbing but they are important to understand because things like this really happened. The fictional characters are so believable, you can being to understand what it could have been like. Well done, Mr. Cavanaugh, you deserve all 5 stars for this one!
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  the_bookish_took

  Former rating: 4 stars
  New rating (Jan. 18, 2022): 5 stars
  
  Man this book was so good and that ending was so terrible in every sense of the word. Like a good terrible. It hurt so much and I know there's more pain to be had. But this may be my favorite of the trilogy. Maybe. Probably.
  
  My favorite is definitely Konrad 🥰
  I just want him to be happy.
  
  So if you like hard World War 2 stories that don't hold back, (after having read While Mortals Sleep first, of course),this one is for you. It's painful yet hopeful and really, really good.
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  Donald Harwick

  To some degree it was a disappointment. I expected more after Mr.Cavanaughs collaboration with Bill Bright.
  The characters seemed one dimensional. Although predictable the plot kept a certain tension.
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  linda brimmer

  Another cliffhanger
  
  If you're not a speed reader or like to stay up
  Late at night, don't pick this book up. It's a continuous story of Pastor Josef's group of young Christian, German's lives as they struggle through World War II
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  Erin Miller

  really good book about Christian youth during the Third Reich
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  Jayne

  Excellent read, wish our libraby had more of this authors books.