Echoes Review

Danielle Steel starts my imagination engine and this book revved the engine. I enjoy World War II stories and this like DS The Ring was real to me. I have never read a book more than once, but I kept seeing this book in movie form, I had to reread it just to remind myself that it has not been made into a movie, yet!

It starts off with a Jewish family Germany taking a vacation in Switzerland, and one of the daughters stays at the hotel while the rest of the family is on an outing, she decides to take a walk and meets a Frenchman, they begin talking and both realize their families would never allow them to see each other, although they do try, everyone is polite but all is rejected and as their love grows, they go home with their families to their home countries never to forget the other. When the Jewish girl's father tell her she is to marry, she denies him and runs off to meet her Frenchman who is also forbidden to see her. Her family sits Shiva for her, for, to them she is now dead. His family denounces him also of his title as a count.

They meet in Switzerland and stay with his cousins family, she converts to Catholicism, and they marry and start a family. They move to Germany and he works as a horse trainer and is killed, she stays and raises his two children. The war starts in Germany and she never tells her two daughters that she was born Jewish, she is now Catholic and it should not matter. Her oldest daughter decides to become a Nun. As the years pass the war gets worse, and before she takes her vows she is sent to a concentration camp, she escapes and becomes a French Revolutionary, and survives and meets a man who falls in love with, and he dies in an ambush. She goes on special missions with another man who saves her when she is wounded and takes her back to England where he has a house full of children from the Kindertransport, she takes care of them and he is lost on a mission, eventually he comes back to them and all is well.

This was one of the best reads to date. Thanks again Danielle Steel for allowing my imagination to soar. Thanks you for taking me with you in all of your books.