The Night Train To Berlin.

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Two lost souls brought together by the chaos of war.
A train journey into the past.
A love that echoes through time. 

 
Paddington Station, present day
A young woman boards the sleeper train to Cornwall with only a beautiful emerald silk evening dress and an old, well-read diary full of sketches. Ellie Nightingale is a shy violinist who plays like her heart is broken. But when she meets fellow passenger Joe she feels like she has been given that rarest of gifts…a second chance. 

 
Paddington Station, 1944
Beneath the shadow of the war which rages across Europe, Alex and Eliza meet by chance. She is a gutsy painter desperate to get to the frontline as a war artist and he is a wounded RAF pilot now commissioned as a war correspondent. With time slipping away they make only one promise: to meet in Berlin when this is all over. But this is a time when promises are hard to keep, and hope is all you can hold in your heart. 

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I came across The Night Train To Berlin while looking for more historical fiction books to read. World War has always been my favorites theme when it comes to historical fiction. Through the years, I have read few books that took place in World War. One that attracted me first to this one, the cover. I believe that the cover itself tells a story or at least part of the story. There is the mystery behind the cover, and you cannot help but be curious. When I saw a cover, I knew that The Night Train To Berlin would be a book that I would end up enjoying. I was right. I couldn’t get enough of the story. I kept on turning the pages, and before I knew it, I was reaching the ending of the book. In my opinion, the stories that you must pull yourself from are the best ones. Yet, every page had me craving for more. 

When it comes to historical fiction, I had always enjoyed it when the point of view shifts from past to present. It’s more fascinating when it’s told from different characters that somehow connected. The way that Ellie and Eliza were connected. I thought that it was romantic that Ellie and Eliza both found love on the night train. I always thought that meeting love on the train was romantic, and of course, I couldn’t help but fall in love with both Ellie and Eliza’s stories. Both of those women were finding battles, except Eliza’s seemed much harder. I don’t think that I would be able to go through what Eliza had to endure during that time. I loved Ellie and Eliza’s stories, but Eliza and Alex’s love, I couldn’t get enough of them. I wanted them to find a way to be with each other; finally, I was rooting for them to find their way to one another. The Night Train To Berlin might be a fictional story, but it’s not the one that I will forget. 

That ending, the one that I can’t seem to get out of my mind. It’s not the one that I expect, and I think that I was in as much shock as Eliza was. Now that’s a twist that nobody will see coming. I might have known that I would like the book, but I didn’t have very high expectations at the beginning. I had Melanie Hudson books on my read but did not get around to reading them yet. Now I wish I had. That’s what I love about discovering new authors. It feels like making a new friend. I cannot wait for a chance to check the rest of her books now. I would highly recommend this for any historical fiction fans.