Hello friends, happy Wednesday! I hope your week has been good so far. Today I’m posting my review of Mark Sullivan’s novel Beneath a Scarlet Sky.

Beneath a Scarlet Sky by: Mark Sullivan: This novel was based on the true events of real life war hero, Pino Lella, a young Italian man forced to join the Nazis during the war as a spy for the Italians. This was definitely an entrancing story filled with a lot of ups and downs, hardship, loss and unexpected love. For the most part, the reader enjoyed this story. It was based off real events that happened during World War II, but it’s a wonder as to how much was real and how much was fictionalized. There were too many surprising things that happened throughout that didn’t feel believable, and if it was real, a little too hard to believe this story hasn’t been told before and has been kept a secret all these years. This was also on the long side; it was fast-paced and the reader found themselves flipping through the pages quite quickly, but that didn’t help it from being a long read. It did make the reader think about war and other countries who were affected by the German Nazis during WWII and their stories. The characters, who were all based on real people and probably exaggerated for the sake of fiction, were complex and definitely multi-dimensional. There were quite a few characters to this story, which definitely gave the story background, but didn’t really make it any more believable that this story was completely true. The reader didn’t really take to any one character and they neither liked or disliked any of them. In the end, this was still an emotional read, as many WWII stories are, but it did a good job of telling a compelling story.