A Picture of Hope

By: Liz Tolsma

Narrated by: Devon Sorvari

Journalist Nellie Wilkerson has spent the bulk of the war in London, photographing pilots taking off and landing - and she's bored. She jumps at the chance to go to France, where the Allied forces recently landed. She enlists Jean-Paul Breslau of the French underground to take her to the front lines. On the journey, they come upon an orphanage where nuns shelter children with disabilities. Can they help save them before the Nazis come to liquidate it?

©2021 Liz Tolsma (P)2021 Oasis Audio

Narrator's pronunciation of German inconsistent

She pronounces w as a v in "wagen" [Kübelwagen?], but mispronounces a German surname with an English w sound. She says it like in American English: Weber. It is distracting. I'm listening, so I'm not sure of the spelling. In any case, they don't use the English w sound.

too preachy

This book is advertised as "Heroines of WWII," but it's really a super preachy Christian book that happens to be set in WWII. The writing gets awkward at times, especially when they are hitting you in the face with the morals. The adventure story is ok, but the heroine seems to keep making the same bad choices without ever learning anything. The romance is sweet, but unconvincing.