![]() ![]() Helene’s entire world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network publishing dissident underground newspapers.Īubrion’s unbridled creativity and linguistic genius attract the attention of August Wolff, a high-ranking Nazi official tasked with swaying public opinion against the Allies. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country’s most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich.īrussels, 1943. ![]() While I adore historical fiction, even I was a bit befuddled by a lot of things that were going on in this book. ![]() My apologies to the author, but I do believe this book was meant for more serious history buffs than myself. While I liked the characters, especially Eliza’s eagerness to know the truth of what happened and how things became as they are, the amount of french, politics, and historical things within was over my head and didn’t keep my attention in the slightest. The Ventriloquists started out interesting, but about forty percent of the way through the book my attention wavered and then I just gave up reading it. ![]()
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