3.5 stars - I liked a lot of things about this book. I love WWII stories, and I really loved that this one was all about the experience of being a woman in WWII. 
 Even more interesting, it's told from the perspective of two sisters, one who is young and strong willed and identifies with the resistance fighters, and the other who is older and a mother and is just trying to survive and provide for her daughter. I found myself wondering who I would be, if I were in the same situation, which I think was part of the intention of writing it that way. 
 The reason my rating isn't higher is just b/c the whole story is pretty depressing. Not that I should have expected it to be anything else, it is about France in WWII. But I just found myself getting fatigued with the weight of everything that was happening.