Hearts of Resistance: A Novel by Soraya M. Lane

Pip Hurst: I love your books Soraya, they are so beautifully written and take me right there. Your research is impeccable. Both my parents were in the New Zealand Army and married during WW2 in Cairo.

Australia on Jan 13, 2024

Becky Thomas: A story of hope and courage, espionage and survival, I couldn’t put it down but read it in one sitting!

Canada on Dec 10, 2023

carol seedhouse: This book really opens your eyes to the truly remarkable women that sacrificed their lives for us
Beautifully written tells of the awful time of world war 2 and the bravery of the people that formed the resistance and gave up everything to help win the war

United Kingdom on Nov 12, 2023

Jeanine Roland: The courage of these women shows us how brave we can be when called upon. I often think about what my family would have endured if we lived in Germany during ww2.

United States on Oct 08, 2023

Amazon Customer: Thank you for documenting this part of world history in your book. I loved this story and all of its characters.

United States on Oct 02, 2023

Jenni B: Loved the three brave women who bonded under terrible circunstances and would risk their lives for each other while working to defeat the Nazis with the French resistance. Each one fighting for their own reasons but together a formidable force against all odds to stay alive

United States on Sep 20, 2023

Jennifer Shoesmith: I have to admit that the characters and the way Ms Lane fills them out to become real people is utterly involving and excellently written.
Her descriptive prose is little short of perfection, and she is very well educated and probably has a jolly good proof reader too, because there was none of the irritating poor grammar and typos that make me mark a book down.
I'm afraid my minimal dislike is probably personal and revolves around Lane's style of storytelling - jumping from one character to the next which I find disruptive to the flow of the story. It makes it easier to put down and sometimes I want to jump whole chapters when she leaves me high and dry in the middle of a good bit.
But I was also distressed by the lack of scenic description. I live in Brittany, not terribly far from Brest, but got no sense of the setting of the story in the countryside. And while our local history is steeped in stories of the Resistance and Maquis and the terrible lengths the Nazis went to in punishing the villages they suspected of supporting them, there was rarely a large building which wasn't taken over by them and it is hard to imagine that any part of the...

United Kingdom on Apr 17, 2022

S. Dawn: In this novel, we follow the paths of three women working for the French Resistance during World War II. While each character's goal is to help the war effort, each has her own motivation. For Hazel, who is British, she wants to prove that women are important to the war effort, and she feels that she can only do that by doing something meaningful. For Rose, who is French, she wants to honor her late husband, who was a part of the Resistance. Sophia, who is German, saw what the Germans were doing to people in her home country, and she wants to stop them.

For me, one thing that stood out with this story was that I really enjoyed each woman's story. When following the paths of multiple characters, there's generally one or two that really stand out and others that just want to get through their chapter so I can get to the stories that I really enjoy. With this one, I never found myself rushing through one woman's chapter simply so I could get to the "good storyline." They were all great.

There are a few instances of swearing, but it's definitely not a prominent feature in this novel. There is also one scene toward the end of the novel that I thought...

United States on Oct 26, 2020

Suze Lavender: Sophia tries to give people a place to hide in her Nazi infested home country. When her father, an active member of the party, suspects what she's doing she flees Germany and joins the French Resistance. Rose has lost everything she holds dear and doesn't mind taking a risk. She's a French woman working for the Resistance, where she meets Sophia. Hazel spent a lot of time in France with her friend Rose and therefore she speaks French without an accent. This is just one of her skills and when she joins the war effort they're more than happy to train her. Her mission is in France, with the Resistance, where she coincidentally runs into her old friend Rose. Together Sophia, Rose and Hazel are trying to do what they can to beat the Germans, will they be able to remain safe?

Sophia, Rose and Hazel risk their lives for others every single day. They don't hesitate when it comes to fighting in the war. They do what they have to do to undermine the Germans, to keep their allies safe and to make sure information is being passed on to the right people. They are intelligent women with a strong bond, but will this be enough for them to survive the war? Can they stay...

United States on May 31, 2018

Amazon Customer: I enjoy historical fiction, especially from the female point of view. It was fairly realistic--the women ere just regular women doing what had to be done and accepting the consequences of their actions.

Canada on Feb 22, 2018