Code Name Sapphire- Pam Jenoff

Pam Jenoff is a master storyteller of historical fiction. The timeline, location, and events involved are always meticulously researched. This coupled with the wonderfully complex characters she creates make for some of the best WWII novels I’ve read. @pamjenoff has a way of instantly whisking you into a story that you quickly become fully invested in.

{Yesterday, I decided it would be a great idea to multitask. I went for my daily beach walk with Sawyer yesterday 🐾 while using my phone’s speech-to-text feature to“write” my review for Code Name Sapphire. Unfortunately when I went to go over my half hour long text, I was left with a note full of a bunch of gibberish. Clearly it was as bit too windy as Siri changed my words into something entirely unrecognizable. In the past, when I’ve had to rewrite a review (because technology has been known to suck things I’ve been working on into the abyss,) I’ve able to do so relatively easily and end up preferring the revision. This time around, the puzzle pieces are just not merging and I simply don’t have the mental capacity to rewrite it. }

All of that being said, thank you SO much, @parkrowbooks for my advanced copy. Codename Sapphire was one of my most anticipated reads of 2023. 💙In her latest novel, Jenoff branches off of the true story of a mission to liberate prisoners from a train headed for Auschwitz, an almost inevitable death sentence. Told in dual POV, Code Name Sapphire is a powerful story of three unlikely women stepping up and into a bravery they hadn’t known they were capable of. My favorite books are told from the perspective of unsung heroes, particularly strong women and while these characters may be fictitious, it doesn’t take away from the heroic actions that were taken. Unfortunately, innumerable accounts of the brave women during this time are wildly undocumented. That is why it is so wonderful that authors like Jenoff create for them a spotlight and give a voice to the powerful women our society has been ignoring for far too long.