The story about Liv would not need it

In the beginning I was mesmerized the story. Tells the story is first behind the image. Sophie works as a young girl in Paris, where she meets an aspiring artist who only portrays and later marries. At the time of the First World War her husband needs to the front and she returns home to his parents' inn. Then this part of France is occupied and is exposed to reprisals by the Germans. The new Commander can cook for Sophie and her sister Sophie, trying to gain sympathy. But with his charm, he will not get far, because too much it depends on her husband and would do anything to save him. Even if that would mean the image of her, the Lord Commander who to leave so much admired it. However, who wants much more than that.

I was so caught up in the story that I frustrated flipping back and forth when the story suddenly made a switch in the present. Definitely had my Kindle a technical defect. But no, from page 167 enters Liv stage and it is pretty boring. Both women, separate nearly a century, have actually only one thing in common, namely that they were left behind by their husbands. Only towards the end, as Liv embarks on the trail of Sophie, it gets interesting again. The love story of the present is rather boring and the court story reminded me too much of the style of Jodi Picoult. Really interesting this book makes only Sophie and their resistance against the German occupation. And the questions before the author introduced me, it had done to me: Who owns a valuable painting that was stolen in wartime? Is it morally reprehensible to retrieve stolen family heirlooms and subsequently to sell for profit?

Therefore, this book of mine gets four stars because it is the ambivalent story of two women who were left behind linked by a portrait. A few sites have fewer, well done the work or to direct as an alternative focus more on Sophie. But otherwise a good story, the time has the First World War on the topic for a change, even if we Germans also because not very good get away.