The Second Winter
Written by Craig Larsen
Narrated by Mark Bramhall
4/5
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About this audiobook
"A great historical novel, a touching family saga, and a noir wartime thriller all rolled into one terrific narrative." (Lee Child, The New York Times best-selling author)
Winner, National Indie Excellence Award 2017 for Literary Fiction
Bronze Winner, Foreword Indies 2016, War & Military
Honorable Mention, San Francisco Book Festival 2017, General Fiction
The fog of war shrouds occupied Denmark in the darkest days of World War II. On a farm in Jutland, Fredrik Gregersen struggles to keep his children fed, supplementing his income by smuggling refugees through Denmark into Sweden. Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, Polina, a young Polish Jew, has been forced into prostitution by the Nazis. When Fredrik steals an heirloom necklace from a helpless Jewish family, his fate becomes intertwined with Polina's, entrapping them both in a complex web that takes decades to unravel.
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Reviews for The Second Winter
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I couldn’t stop listening to it I listen to it straight through Couldn’t even get any sleep highly recommend it
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great book, engrossing , deep story line, left me wanting more. What happened to Paulina?
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It was probably a good story, but it didn’t keep my attention all that much and the characters could have been developed so much more.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I didn’t think I would like this book because it was very hard to get into. But I’m glad I stayed with it because it got to be a real page turner!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Such a great book! Well written! Interesting from start to finish
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5An emotional well told tale that gripped me until the end.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5They tried adding to many explicit scenes that were not relevant to the story, it destroyed the flow of the plot which was weak to start.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Author writes in a visually stimulating way, but the pieces of the story could have been woven together better. I struggled to connect all of the parts to the story at at times was confused and wondering if I missed something.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I kept listening wanting to understand where the story was actually going. The characters didn’t really evolve enough for me to have any deep feeling for them. There were lots of unanswered aspects of the characters that I found perplexing, and somewhat disjointed.