I hate starting a review with "I hate," but let me be honest - I hate WWII fiction. Maybe it was forced too harshly on me throughout my years of Jewish education, maybe it just still hurts too much in my soul for me to find entertainment - my reason for reading fiction - in. I was hesitant to request and read this book. However the community I work as a librarian in is enamored with WWII books and they are the number one most requested books in my library. Netgalley recommended it to me because of the LGBTQ+ category, and I decided to give it a shot. This book absolutely floored me. It did often give me the gut-punch ache I experience with Holocaust books, but this book had me too deeply in its grip for me to care. I adored the story and the characters, and how the author wove them all together. While the sapphic romance was the bait this book used to hook me, I stayed for the thoughts and ideas, the characters who love books as much as I do. As a librarian, I cannot wait to share this book with my community and as a queer Jewish woman, I cannot wait to share this book with the people that I love.