Friday, June 24, 2022

Season of My Enemy by Naomi Musch

Book description:


 Only last year, Fannie O’Brien was considered a beauty with a brain, and her future shone bright, despite the war pounding Europe. With her father’s sudden death and her brothers overseas, Fannie must now do the work of three men on their 200-acre farm—until eight German prisoners arrive and, just as Fannie feared, trouble comes too. Someone seems intent on causing “accidents,” and Fannie is certain the culprit is one of the two handsome older Germans—or possibly both. Can she manage the farm, keep the prisoners in line, and hold her family together through these turbulent times?


My Review:

    This was a new author to me, never even hearing of her before to my knowledge. The book description intrigued me enough that I requested it to review.

    This was a slower paced book than I usually read, and it did take me a while to get into it. Once I did catch my interest more, I was able to get into it and enjoy it. The setting for the book was a great one: a busy Wisconsin farm, and the author came up with some great and likable characters....American and German.

  Not only is the book interesting for entertainment value, but it really brought home the realities of being around the enemy, and how Christians still need to abstain from hate when it involves people from a country they are at war with.

  The feelings of different characters are all over the map throughout the book. Fannie is totally against the idea of using German POW's to help out on the farm, and has severely intense feelings against them. Her feelings go back and forth some throughout the book. Some of the German soldiers hate Americans and having to work for them, while others were unwilling participants in their country's war, and were thankful for the chance to get out of the prison camp and work. 

 I feel the author did a great job of portraying the struggle in different characters on both sides of the war to forgive and not hate.

 The relationship between Fannie and Wolf was a long slow process, and I will not say how that ended....but I was happy with the ending of the book, and did enjoy reading the book. I am already looking at the author's other books, and am considering reading The Love Coward next.

 After I finished the book, I Googled what happened in the book. We did indeed have prison camps in the US for German soldiers, and they were used to work for pay outside of the camps. There were very strict rules on how they were treated.

I was provided a copy of this book for review purposes. All opinions in this review are my own.


About the author:


Naomi loves stories rich in American history, but occasionally writes in other genres as well. She pens stories from the pristine north woods, where she and her husband live as epically as God allows near


their five adult children and passel of grandchildren. She has worked as an editor for a small press, a staff writer for an EPA award-winning newspaper, a ghost writer, and has published dozens of magazine and internet articles for the encouragement of homeschooling families and young writers. Naomi is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers, Lake Superior Writers, and the Wisconsin Writers' Association. She loves engaging with others and always discovering kernels of a new story. She is available for speaking and book groups. Her newest novel is Mist O'er the Voyageur, and she anticipates re-releasing several of her back-list novels in 2019.

Connect with her through her website: http://www.naomimusch.com

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  Season of My Enemy is available from Barbour Publishing.

Thanks to Barbour for the review copy.

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