Book Review: The Silence Before Dawn

 

The Silence Before Dawn (WW2 Resistance Series Book 1)

by Amanda Lees

Narrated by Sofia Zervudachi

Pub Date 13 Sep 2022 

 Bookouture Audio 

 Historical Fiction 

I am reviewing a copy of The Silence Before Dawn through Bookoture Audio and Netgalley;

The year is 1944, Nazi-Occupied France, : I tear open the envelope, extracting a sheet of folded paper. I read it, my heart cracking with every word. There is no mistaking the name of the man who betrayed us. Jack. My beloved fiancé – and now, a traitor.

Marianne’s resistance network has carried out courageous missions from a remote farmhouse in southern Provence, aiding the Nazis’ downfall for months. Unfortunately one fateful night, they are viciously ambushed as German soldiers storm in, scattering, capturing or killing every last person there.

Mourning the loss of her friends, Marianne will need every ounce of courage to survive. Not only has her life as a secret agent been critically compromised, but her heart has been shattered. Because Jack, her darling fiancé and fellow spy, fled in the chaos – and is accused of being the traitor who betrayed them.

Marianne is desperate to believe Jack’s innocence and that their love was true, to her horror Marianne discovers he has been seized by the Butcher of Lyon, a Nazi more brutal and ruthless than any other. Now it is more imperative than ever that Marianne finds Jack – before he reveals the names of every undercover agent in France, or before he is murdered for remaining loyal.

Now Marianne sets out for the most dangerous and most personal  mission of her life.  With a tight knit group of other women agents by her side Marianne risks everything to rescue Jack. Can she save her fiancé before it’s too late – and change the fate of the war in the process? Or is she blind to the heart-breaking truth, and simply sacrificing her own life?

I give The Silence Before Dawn five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!