Thank you Netgalley for a copy of Midnight Train to Prague in exchange for a review::

I did not enjoy this. I was really looking forward to it, as I love historical fiction and love Berlin, but those loves were soon ignored as I couldn’t get a handle of this book. It was all-over the place.

First of all, it didn’t help that the majority of the story was told in the passive (tell). There was a lot of: ‘When they finished doing this, X did this and Y then did that.’ Pages and pages of tell. Very little active/ present voice. I felt like I had a narrator standing behind me telling me things I was already watching.
It also didn’t help that there was lots of backstory. In fact, on the very first page, the hopping back and forth between present and past was rather jarring.

I might give the book a “re-read” when the audiobook comes out, I don’t know why, but that sometimes helps polish out the bumps that I, as a reader, experience.

Loved the book the people and you feel like you are in the countries with them sad emotional funny all rolled into one

On what should have been a simple train trip from Berlin to Prague with her mother in1927, Natalia Faber learns the truth about father, whom she believed died when she was a baby. She also meets two people who will become central to her life, Magdalena Schaefer and Count Miklos Andorjan , the man she will later marry. Years later, with the onset of World War II, Natalia finds herself in a Prague waiting for Miklos to return from the fighting at the front. There she meets Anna Schafer, the daughter of the woman she met in 1927. The Nazis send Anna to a concentration camp for spying and Natalia is left bereft. This is a story of sacrifice and loss, something most of us are just beginning to experience in our own lives. This story will put our petty predicaments to shame

This book was so good! The characters were so well rounded, you felt like you actually knew them! The plot was so good you didn't want the book to end!