How Have Choices Impacted You?


 Have you ever noticed how choices impact relationships?  In Kristin Harmel’s novel When We Meet Again, the choices of the characters directly affect the story.  It is a story of strong women.   This story is told through the events of World War II.  Did you know that there were prisoner camps that housed enemy prisoners beyond the Japanese? 


About the Book: 


“Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad walked out on the family when she was just a kid, her mom died when she was eighteen, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away as well. But when she’s laid off from her reporting job, she finds herself completely adrift…until the day she receives a beautiful painting of a young woman standing at the edge of a sugarcane field under a violet sky. She recognizes the woman as her grandmother, but the painting arrived with no identification other than a handwritten note saying, “He never stopped loving her...”


Curious, Emily begins to do some digging and uncovers a fascinating moment in American history. Her trail leads her to the POW internment camps of 1940s Florida, where German prisoners worked for American farmers...and sometimes fell in love with American women. But how does this all connect to the painting? The answer to that question will take Emily on a road that leads from the sweltering Everglades to Munich, Germany and back before she’s done.


This new edition has been refreshed by the author and contains a new author’s note.” (amazon.com)


My Thoughts: 


I loved this novel!  There is definitely a lot of drama.  It was sad to me to see how characters make choices that directly impact others.  The book is well written.  I did not read the updated version of this story. The author's refresh may impact the story, but only in the sense that it would make it better.  I can’t wait to read Kristin’s current novel, The Stolen Life of Colette Marceau. 


Rating: 5/5


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