Book Review: The Things We Cannot Say

The Things We Cannot Say

by Kelly Rimmer

HARLEQUIN — Graydon House Books (U.S. & Canada)

Graydon House

General Fiction (Adult) , Historical Fiction

Pub Date 19 Mar 2019

I am reviewing a copy of The The Things We Cannot Say through Harlequin-Graydon House Books and Netgalley:

1942 Europe is still in the relentless grip of war. Not far from the tents of the Russian Refuge camp camps she calls home, a woman speaks her wedding vows, a decision that will change her destiny. A lie that would stay buried until the the twenty first century.

Alina Dziak knew from the time she was nine that she would marry her best friend Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is not concerned by the reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish Border, she believed her neighbors didn’t pose a real threat instead she dreams of the day when Tomasz returns from College in Warsaw so they could marry. Little by little brutal injustice by the Nazi’s take hold and Alina’s small village becomes divided by hate and fear. Then as the fabric of their lives is torn apart Tomasz disappears. Alina has once measured the time between visits from Tomasz now she alternates between hope and despair. She waits for Tomasz and avoids the attention of the soldiers who are patrolling her parents farm. For now even the deafening silence is preferable to the grief.

This story weaves the narratives of two women’s stories, living in a different time and a place in a way that leaves you wanting more.

This story is one I definitely recommend, the characters come to life on the page.

I give The Things We Cannot Say five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!