“The Warsaw Sisters” by Amanda Barratt is a beautiful story that was, for me, also very unexpected.  It is in the Christian Historical Fiction genre so I thought I knew what I was getting into, but that was not the case.  It is an extremely powerful and well-written tale, that much is certain.  The depth and emotion and historical truth of it is quite astounding, in fact.  But it is also VERY graphic, and the depictions about the horrors of war will likely stay with me for a very long time.  This was the author’s intention, of course, to impress upon our imaginations the reality of what happened in Poland during the Second World War.  I’m not sorry I read it, I just wasn’t prepared for it.  And that’s my own fault.

I won’t go into all the details of how this novel was so graphic, but I will say that the depictions of the suffering the people of Warsaw faced is something you will likely never forget.  The story is, however, extremely powerful and redemptive – and this part is also memorable.  

So in the end, I do recommend this story – I just hope you go into it more prepared than I was.  I read it during the week before Christmas, expecting a cozy story of two sisters’ clandestine adventures during wartime – but what I received was something much more powerful.  

“Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.”