I had high hopes for this one, but I'm sorry to say that it fell short of my expectations. The story is set in France during the Second World War, and describes the period when the Germans invaded France and stationed hundreds of soldiers in St Malo. The Nazis had decreed that any books found in France that were deemed to be subversive were to be gathered in and destroyed and the local librarian, Jocelyn, sets about saving as many as she can. The author is Spanish, so the book has been translated into American English and, to me, that didn't sit very well as the language of French and German people. The outline of the story sounds good, but I found the characters one dimensional and some parts of the plot were not very credible. Mario Escobar has a masters degree in modern history, so he has a good working knowledge of the facts relating to the Second World War, but I found myself constantly questioning whether some of the events would ever have happened....