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Phyllis Edgerly Ring

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Phyllis Edgerly Ring is an award-winning freelance writer who has had more than 700 articles published in several dozen magazines and newspapers. A columnist for ReligionandSpirituality.com, she also offers workshops in writing and serves as an instructor with the Long Ridge Writer's Group. She is mehr anzeigen a contributing writer and columnist for Seacoast Newspapers and contributing editor for Our Times for Women and New Hampshire Life magazines. She lives in Exeter, New Hampshire. weniger anzeigen

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Profoundly moving. Filled with growth and love and the best of human connection, and with painful glimpses of the worst humans do to each other. Strong, brave women and the men who need that, who fear that, or who learn from that. Excellent research, well-written, covering lifetimes and perspectives without causing disorientation or jarring. Absolutely worth reading. The pain and fear do not triumph, but this novel does not allow readers to glide past those moments either.
 
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AnneMarieMcD | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 16, 2024 |
The Munich Girl by Phyllis Edgerly Ring was a well-written and interesting story about Eva Braun, Hitler’s mistress turned Wife the final day of his life, and the circle of people who loved and knew a different, secret side of Eva. While I enjoyed the character development and found the plot and the writing style engaging, it was hard for me to care about Eva Braun even as she is depicted here as a compassionate and caring, selfless and conflicted woman. I found it especially hard to have any sympathy for someone who so obviously loved such a monster of a man.… (mehr)
 
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LoriFox | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 24, 2020 |
Historical Fiction is one my favorite genres but this story really let me down. I have always been intrigued by the films of Eva Braun that I have seen parts of and the photos. I wondered how could she fall for Hitler? I have only two clues. Eva was only seventeen years old while Hitler was forty when she met him in the photo shop where she worked. The other one is that she was not interested in politics at all. The first one makes more sense to me but because I am so very political I wonder if there is just a whole lot that we still do not know about her.

When I first started to read this book, I was fascinated to learn anything more about her. I wanted to plunge into the book every evening. But there is a complicated side story which is set in the
present and was entirely fictional. At first, I just accepted the second story and it seemed to fit so well with the author's research but then there was too much of the story about Anna Dahlberg and not enough about Eva Braun. And I do not really care for romantic stories. My interest in Anna's left after the dramatic way her husband left the plane when it crashed. It felt too perfect and made me distrust author.

My interest picked again shortly before the end when the deaths of Eva Braun and Hitler appeared in the book but the second story got too unbelievable for me to be happy with it.

I have decided that I prefer historical fiction to include the real historical person and also a per son also existed at the time. Did the author Phyllis Edgerly Ring find in her research that there was no secondary real person who knew Eva Braun closely so she had to make up a completely fictional character? I still wonder about Eva Braun, contradictory facts have come out about her that reveal that she was not just the ordinary person that she claimed to be, I guess we will never know!

I received a copy of this book from the Publisher as a win from FirstReads but that in no way made a difference in my thoughts or feelings in this review.
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Carolee888 | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 27, 2019 |
I entered a GiveAway for this novel, and although I did not win, was so intrigued by the synopsis that I bought it anyway. I'm very glad I did. I thought this was one amazing novel which, although it was Historical Fiction, read like non-fiction. Kudos to the author for that.
While I am a student of the era (WWII - hey I can remember a lot about those days even though I was a toddler), I never really thought or knew anything about Eva Braun. All I knew was that she was Hitler's girlfriend. I never even knew that in the end they married. Today, most of what you read about Hitler and Eva Braun, is did they actually survive and escape to South America? I personally think that is gibberish but unfortunately, Russia did the world no favors with their actions involving their remains.
Back to this story however, my main complaints are too much German language in the book and too much of a contrived ending involving the families. The book was over when the last of Eva's story became known but the author seemed to want to keep it going and came out with many outlandish details to keep us interested. Otherwise I would have given it 5 stars.
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MikeDI | 8 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 2, 2018 |

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