Happy Wednesday!! 

Today I have a book review. This year I am trying to read more. I love reading but so often  do not have the time or energy after working all day.  I want to read more because there are so many books that I want to read.

Today’s book review is on The Warsaw Orphan- It is a historical fiction based during War World II in Warsaw, Poland. 

This book was amazing but it is very sad. If you’re not particularly fond of morose literature I would advise finding a different book.  

 In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors. She knows all too well about German brutality—and that it’s the reason she must conceal her true identity. But in befriending Sara, a nurse who shares her apartment floor, Elzbieta makes a discovery that propels her into a dangerous world of deception and heroism. Using Sara’s credentials to smuggle children out of the ghetto brings Elzbieta face-to-face with the reality of the war behind its walls, and to the plight of the Gorka family, who must make the impossible decision to give up their newborn daughter or watch her starve. For Roman Gorka, this final injustice stirs him to rebellion with a zeal not even his newfound love for Elzbieta can suppress. But his recklessness brings unwanted attention to Sara’s cause, unwittingly putting Elzbieta and her family in harm’s way until one violent act threatens to destroy their chance at freedom forever.

The narrative is told from two different perspectives; a storytelling device I find particularly inventive here.  Elzbieta is a great character and she grows throughout the book, she is very ambitious and stubborn. Roman is the oldest brother in the Gorka family. The Gorka family is imprisoned in the “ghetto” and Elzbieta traverses through the neighborhood to save thousands of innocents who are trapped there.   This book made me sad, cry, smile, have faith in humanity, but also begrudge humanity. 

You will be cheering for these two characters and hoping and wishing they make it through the war. Sadly millions were killed during War World II but you have people like Elzbieta who took risks to help the people that live in the ghetto particularly babies who they can easily smuggle out of the ghetto.. It is a love story but it is not obvious and does not take over the whole book. As a trigger warning, it contains rape scenes so that might not be your preference, but it doesn’t consume the whole book and I promise you said chapter is essential to the plot of the book.  It has a happy ending though and the ending wraps it up quite nicely. Well as nice as it can get with an Historical novel with the background of WWII. 

I recommend reading it. 

I rate it 5 stars. 

Let me know what you think of, “The Warsaw Orphan” in the comments below. 

-Valencia