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Click here to purchase a copy from Amazon Book: Irina's Eye Author: H.W. Freedman Published by: H.W. Freedman Pages: 190 Genre:  Historical Fiction Rating:  3.75/5 Stars Recommend:   Yes  " We consist of two parts: essence and personality. Your essence is what you received through heredity before the formation of personality, your character, your nature, it doesn't change, it is what is your own but it can develop with the help of your mind. Your personality is an accumulation of what of what you have learned from others. " Snapshot:  The story sets in the time 1948, the Bohemian border with Bavaria, West Germany. "It was Germany after all and all he remembered when the Nazis had come to his town. He was 9-years old." Vaclav and Irina decided to flee together to start a peaceful life somewhere far. They were both 15 when they decided to execute their plan. When they flee from behind the Iron Curtain, Irina was shot in th...

I received an E-arc of this book from the author for an honest review. This book was a rollercoaster of emotions that I have experienced while reading it. I find the book has such an intriguing story and eloquent. Though it is slow paced read, and it took me about 50 pages or so to get into it. But once I was into it, I could see the whole Korean drama in front of me. This wonderful historical fiction based in Korea during 900s takes you entirely in a different world. The story starts when the princess of Jihye disappeared from the palace and trying to survive outside the wall without getting into any troublesome situation. Obviously! That didn't happen, and when she got into trouble, a young boy (Choi Jiyong) saved her, Jiyong was a farmer and a clumsy boy living his happy life, and when he saved her, it all became topsy-turvy. Their relationship grew in the book, and it was so fun to read. The story has multiple POVs which gets confusing at the start but as so...