The Berlin Letters
My first Katherine Reay book was, “Dear Mr. Knightley,” which I adored. While the other titles written by Reay around this time didn’t grab me quite as much, last year I was blown away by, “A Shadow in Moscow,” my favorite book of 2023. When I saw that there was a new book coming out by this author, who is now a definite favorite, I was beyond excited to receive an advanced copy to read on NetGalley. I only hoped it lived up to her achievement of the previous year’s, “A Shadow in Moscow.” It did! “The Berlin Letters,” is (thankfully) a bit different than the many, many novels that have come out it the last several years surrounding the World War ll time period. I have heard a lot about the Berlin Wall over the years, and have read other novels on the topic. However, I learned many things that I had never heard before in this book. The overall concept of how a culture is infiltrated by Communism is very interesting and very relevant to our times. The story is engaging from start to...