Helpful Score: 2
Not as good as Torey Hayden's nonfiction, this is a rambling novel which is tolerably well-written and absorbing, but ultimately not terribly satisfying.
Helpful Score: 1
This is a story of haunting cruelty that withered the soul of a beautiful Hungarian youth during Hitler's reign of Terror. Mara now an old woman relives the story of what happened to her and the decisions that she felt she had to make. It's quite unlike other books by Torey Hayden, but it is a very tragic story that gripes you.