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Perfidia [Mass Market Paperback]

Elspeth McKendrick (Author)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 321 pages
  • Publisher: Dorchester Publishing (26 Oct 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0505527391
  • ISBN-13: 978-0505527394
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 2.4 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,490,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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In 1939 Berlin, Sophie de Havilland, during the rise of the Third Reich and the Nazi regime, seeks escape with the help of a dashing half-American stranger who, seducing her with the promise of safety, is not what he seems. Original.
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Amazon.com: 3.8 out of 5 stars  4 reviews
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Spine-tingling WWII romance 25 Aug 2007
By Cherchezlafemme - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Historical romances outside the usual Regency England are hard to come by, so when I saw this book on shelves(after reading the review in Romantic Times), I snapped it up. Elspeth McKendrick has written two other historicals set in the 20th century, with her last release, the equally suspenseful "Blood Moon Over Britain" set during WWII as well.

In Perfidia, Sophie de Havilland flees England with a broken heart to find refuge with her aunt, married to a German baron. However, 1939 Berlin is not the place for an enemy of the Nazi Party to reside, as Sophie soon discovers after the rose-tinted glass she wore concerning the Third Reich are quickly stripped from her eyes. In the meantime, she finds herself attracted to a half-American SS officer whose loyalties to the Reich are a bit murkier than her own. McKendrick successfully delivers a series of heart-stopping twists and conveys the period as if she'd lived through the times herself. While the romance between Sophie and Karl take a backseat to the suspense, "Perfidia" is ultimately satisfying and I look forward to more novels from McKendrick.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing read 16 May 2008
By Angie Brunk - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a great thriller that vividly portrays life in Germany at the dawn of WWII. It's not a typical setting for a romance novel, but it works very well.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars A wasted opportunity 10 Jan 2009
By C. Young - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Reading this book is just an exercise in frustration. It has a really interesting premise and a storyline that could have been involving. Could have been- if it didn't have such shoddy execution and feature such amateurish writing. I also wondered how much research the author actually did for this book. In the book, the SS officers referred to themselves as Nazis and the Nazi party several times, which would not have have happened. The women also kept on referring to themselves as Aryan, which also seems kinda iffy to me. And would a British woman really have been as well received and moved in the highest levels of society as the heroine Sophie did if Germany was at war with Britain just because she's got blonde hair and blue eyes?

And then there's the heroine, Sophie, whose believe in the Third Reich at the beginning just made her seem like such an idiot. How could she not have known what was happening in the concentration camps? Did she live in a cave? Her eventual transformation from believing in the Third Reich to hating them also had a ring of falseness to it, as she didn't feel that strongly about what was happening to the Jews one way or another until an incident that happened impacted her personally. I didn't believe for a second that she didn't know, it felt like she just didn't care until it hit her on the homefront.

Historical fictions set during WWI are hard to come by, which only made this book all the more disappointing.
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