Time of Useful Consciousness edition by Jennifer Ott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Louisa Unger, a young German woman in Post-War World II Germany kills a man in cold blood. Despite her crime, her fate is up to her - give up her countrymen for her freedom. She decides to play the loyalty card and remain in prison.
During the interrogations, Louisa weaves her tale of the events by evading any real information. She relives reuniting with her estranged brother Freddy, falling in love with Kris, a former reconnaissance pilot and learning to fly to a plane. She recounts in fairy tale fashion of monsters cloaked in shadows and lessons learned by incorrigible children.
Seduced into the bliss of romance and flying, Louisa fails to recognize any threat. She grows immersed in the life of a smuggler, a pilot and a lover. It is hard to come back down to earth, when soaring so high.
Time of Useful Consciousness edition by Jennifer Ott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Time of Useful Consciousness is about Louisa Unger, a young German woman trying to survive postwar Germany, which is under American occupation and slowly recovering from the colossal and utter breakdown of the country's infrastructure. Louise's story is a coming of age story in a world crushed by war and hatred. So much has been written about the Second World War and generally I'm not a fan of war fiction; but I really enjoyed reading this book as it offers a unique post-war allied forces occupation narrative.The story starts with Louisa and her time in prison as she battles her inner and outer preoccupation with war. At times, she is mentally rushed between the past and the present and takes the reader with her on her postwar expedition. She is well adjusted and a woman of rare strength, yet one cannot help but see a numb sort of PTSD syndrome in her and the others characters. She tries to come to terms with the various elements of postwar survival and destruction of normal life for German citizens. But she is still a woman who is a tiny drop in the tsunami left by war.
Jennifer Ott has a gift for weaving characters so rich in complexity, the protagonists feel like real people who have lived and died. I like the way this book encompass other genres like romance suspense and drama. Louisa falls in love and also gets embroiled in a mystery. I would highly recommend this book!
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Time of Useful Consciousness edition by Jennifer Ott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
I picked this book up because I really like historical fiction especially books during this period. I also thought the book should a unique perspective from the point of view of the Germans and how their life was affected by the events of World War 2. It also shows like how it was like after the war and when it was occupied by the allies.I also thought some of the supporting characters like Colonel Taylor was understanding and liked how he tried to be a father figure to Louisa. That said there was a lot of things I didn't really like about the book. I really thought the main character Louisa started out super naive and didn't know how the world. I see this a lot in books where the main character will act like an innocent and delicate person that doesn't know a lot about the world and this girl didn't know anything. I also like Louisa less naive but more like annoying. I mean throughout the story Louisa plays this innocent girl that didn't do anything wrong and yet gets tangled up in a mess due to her brother's mistake. I also think the future part where she was stuck and jail, I think she didn't seem like she was suffering. Louisa got to do whatever she wanted, eat good food and yet she continues to be difficult. I personally am ok with her being stuck in jail. Lastly, I also felt like there was lack of character growth and the whole plot was rather slow.
I received this book from the author for the purpose of this review. All comments and opinions are entirely my own.
A novel that captures the pain, heartache, trials, and even the bit of hope and romance that so many people endured through WWII.
Even though I probably could have fallen in love with the story for Time of Useful Consciousness, I did not care for any of the characters nor was I pleased with the amount of cursing and sexual conversations and actions that were present in this novel. And because of that, I dropped the book fairly quickly.
I do have to applaud the author on her writing style because I love her use of vocabulary, and the intelligent way that she wove the story together. The only reasons that this book receives such a low rating from me, is because of the above mentioned.
I give it 2 out 5 stars and do not recommend to readers who are wanting a clean WWII novel.
Time of Useful Consciousness by Jennifer Ott is an exciting novel of post-World War II Germany. The title is an interesting term in aviation that provides a powerful metaphor for describing the very difficult social/economic conditions of the time period in Deutschland. Louisa Unger is a pilot, rare in a man’s specialty area. Successful in her flight training, Louisa becomes involved inadvertently in an airborne smuggling operation and is arrested and confined to an American Military prison. Louisa is interrogated, and she tells the story of Germans trying to reconstruct their country and deal with the guilt of the War-time atrocities of the Nazi regime.
Louisa’s account of the year preceding her capture involves descriptions of flying, personal relationships, post-War hardships, and difficult conflict resolutions. Time of Useful Consciousness (TUC) is the amount of time an individual is able to perform flying duties efficiently in an environment of inadequate oxygen supply. The aftermath of war waged within a country is a shortage of adequate resources to rebuild its culture on a grand scale. There is also a decreased supply of personal resilience to reconnect with family and develop new loving relationships in an atmosphere low on moral identity. Some of Ott’s characters, like Louisa, react positively in the TUC physical/social environment and others negatively making for an exciting narrative. I give the novel 4 stars for its unique and interesting historical perspective.
I was given a copy of the novel by the author for an honest review.
I liked the story or idea behind the book and that is the only reason why I waded through it. But I have honestly never read a book (the version) with so many syntax, grammar and careless errors in it - and the German that the (German) characters (try to) speak (since the story mainly takes place in Germany) is atrocious, bordering on the hilarious! Surely it cannot be that difficult to double check what you want to say in a different language? I don't think any editing was done!
written from a post 2000 point of view, not realistic to the era
Time of Useful Consciousness is about Louisa Unger, a young German woman trying to survive postwar Germany, which is under American occupation and slowly recovering from the colossal and utter breakdown of the country's infrastructure. Louise's story is a coming of age story in a world crushed by war and hatred. So much has been written about the Second World War and generally I'm not a fan of war fiction; but I really enjoyed reading this book as it offers a unique post-war allied forces occupation narrative.
The story starts with Louisa and her time in prison as she battles her inner and outer preoccupation with war. At times, she is mentally rushed between the past and the present and takes the reader with her on her postwar expedition. She is well adjusted and a woman of rare strength, yet one cannot help but see a numb sort of PTSD syndrome in her and the others characters. She tries to come to terms with the various elements of postwar survival and destruction of normal life for German citizens. But she is still a woman who is a tiny drop in the tsunami left by war.
Jennifer Ott has a gift for weaving characters so rich in complexity, the protagonists feel like real people who have lived and died. I like the way this book encompass other genres like romance suspense and drama. Louisa falls in love and also gets embroiled in a mystery. I would highly recommend this book!
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