Saving Amelie
Author: Cathy Gohlke
Published By: Tyndale House Publishers
Date Published: May 16th 2014
Genre: Christian Fiction, Historical Fiction
Pages: 453
Recommended Age: Adult
Read and Reviewed By: Me
Rating: A/5
This is from my own personal library.
Summary:
On a trip to Germany with her adoptive father Rachel Kramer
is told by her old friend Kristine that her SS officer husband Gerhardt Schlick
sees their child Amelie as a disgrace and not worthy of life because she was
born deaf. Kristine pleads with Rachel to Amelie back to America with her raise
her as her own because Gehardt plans to have her murdered. Rachel once dated
Gerhardt so knows how cruel he can be. When she starts searching her scientist
father’s documents she realizes that her whole life was a lie and she was an experiment
for the Third Reich and now they plan to complete their experiment. With
Gerhardt and the rest of the S.S hunting Rachel down she finds herself being
helped by unlikely allies.
My Thoughts:
I just love, love this book.
I have a book hangover today because I was up until two in the morning
reading this book. I could not put Saving
Amelie by Cathy Gohlke down. Gohlke
has gained a new fan. It was a fast-paced book that kept you on the edge of
your seat. I also loved how she handled the faith issue. I felt she made the
characters who were not believers more realistic in their faith journey by the
ways they came to accept Christ. In the beginning, Gohlke glazed over the faith
talk in the beginning of the book enough to let the readers know who the true
believers were and who were not. She did not over kill the faith talks as some
Christian writers do. She made them coming to Christ as non believers more realistic.
Introducing the beloved German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his book The Cost of Discipleship helped weaved
Rachel and others faith journey into the storyline seamlessly. Gohlke did a
fantastic job and I cannot wait to read more of her books and this is the
reason I gave Saving Amelie five
stars and a grade of A. I loved it!
Parents:
Language: None
Adult Content: Talks about genocide and eugenics
Violence: insinuated beatings after the effect,
insinuated gassing of innocent children
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