Escaping into the night =3

This book is thrilling! I literaly could not put it down once I started on it. Really. This story is about a girl, Halina. She and her friend, Batya, escaped from their ghetto into the forest (Halina's mother was not so lucky, as the Nazis went to her factory and ordered them to go to a pit where they shot all of them. However, Batya escaped narrowly.), where there were scouts and partisans who helped them to hide. They hid in the underground for a long time. Sometimes, the men had to go out on raids to get food from the nearby villages, who were sometimes patrolled by the Nazis. Halina and Batya volunteered to go on a raid once, and they accidentally went into a Nazi soldier's house. If you would like to know about what happened to them there and after that, read the book! The author settles herself into the protagonist's character very snugly. She writes the story in a way that you really can imagine yourself in the protagonist, Halina's, shoes and see the story unfolding right before your eyes. There is also a lot of suspense and twists in it. Also, yo can feel the fear of the Jews in hiding, their worries, and even the evilness of te Nazis. Although some people may turn away from this book as they think it may be gory, it does have a soft spot to it, like all things do. Halina experiences love for the first time in the form of crushes, and she even got her first kiss from a boy there. It is really amazing how things can turn so lovely in such a horrible situation. I really like this book as I am interested in the Holocaust, but for people who do not like war, jus empathise with the Jews, how they were discriminated and their strong faith that God will help them.

Rating for Escaping into the Night by D. Dina Friedman (In my perspective): ***** Good book! I really wish it was longer!

Note: This book is somewhat like Anne Frank's Diary, but it is not. Anne Frank hid up, Halina hid underground. They are a world apart. (:

Done by:
Sarah Tong JH106(: