Eva Traube is the French daughter of two Polish immigrants and while she's lived in France all her life, it is her family's Jewish identity that is going to change the course of her life. When the Nazis come for them, she manages to escape to small mountain town where she stumbles into the role of a forger of false papers for Jews fleeing from or fighting against the Nazis, mostly children. In this clandestine world, Eva's mind is all that is keeping the true identities of this children safe until she and a fellow forger come up with the idea of a Book of Names. While it does her heart good to try and help, the rest of her Eva's life is a warzone and keeping her and her loved ones safe is a race against time.
I like French Resistance stories and this is an interesting twist. There is definitely a strong romance thread, which I liked for the most part, and I appreciated when Eva tried to listen to the part of herself that knew that to do something was so much better than to do nothing in the face of evil. It moves along quickly and ends in a satisfying way, I just thought the writing was nothing special. It felt sorta bland, like a box cake with can frosting. It's good, and yes, I'm gonna eat it and enjoy it, but nothing about the language or story really struck a strong chord.
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