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Summary: A Slight Disappointment
Review: After having waited years to read this sequel, I was slightly disappointed once I had completed reading it. The fact that the book contained some little-known French was one reason, especially when knewing the French sometimes helped to understand what was happening in the story. Even after re-reading the story and being able to translation most of the French, I was dissatisfied. Although Patty went back to France to live out her days with Roger, I don't feel the book adequately resolved Patty's need to find a mother's love. It just doesn't seem effective for her to basically say "Okay, since Anton's mother is dead, I'll just settle for Roger". The story spent too much time on Patty's getting to France and living there, and not enough time on her actual goal of trying to find a true mother-daughter relationship in Europe. This book is good to read if you just want to know what happened to Patty, but doesn't have the same genuine feel as its predecessor.
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Summary: We Must Understand the Past To Get On With The Future
Review: I agree, in some ways, with other, somewhat less than enthusiastic reviews of this book. However, I think we are all comparing it to the prequel, Summer of My German Soldier. It cannot be compared, because then we are denying the power it holds on it's own. Anton is dead. That was difficult to accept when I first began reading this novel, I rarely believe bad news. And neither does Patty truly accept his death. She travels to Europe, to find answers that she must know are not there. She meets Roger, who cares about her now, and still she clings desperately to the idea of Anton. She tried to save him, and she forgets the real service she did, showing him kindness. In the end, the past must be released into memory, not forgotten, but not held to so tightly that the present is ignored. Patty changes, always a mature girl, she has now grown up.
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Summary: Morning didn't come this time
Review: I couldn't wait to read this sequel to one of my favorite books, "Summer of my German Soldier". However, I was left disappointed and questioning. I'd rate it 2.5 stars, if that were possible. Patty seemed immature. I will give her kudos for blowing off the people who shunned her, including her parents. I hoped for high adventure when she disobeyed her parents and took a trip to Europe. But she and Roger, her boyfriend, had silly arguements, and she spent too much time in France with him. I know she loved him, but shouldn't she have been anxious to talk to Anton's relatives? Why didn't she try to begin a relationship with them? The ending was semi-inspirational, but not really satisfying. What about her and Roger? Did she ever go back to America? I thought she'd want to see Ruth again. Read this book only if you really want to know what happens to Patty.
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Summary: Morning didn't come this time
Review: I couldn't wait to read this sequel to one of my favorite books, "Summer of my German Soldier". However, I was left disappointed and questioning. I'd rate it 2.5 stars, if that were possible. Patty seemed immature. I will give her kudos for blowing off the people who shunned her, including her parents. I hoped for high adventure when she disobeyed her parents and took a trip to Europe. But she and Roger, her boyfriend, had silly arguements, and she spent too much time in France with him. I know she loved him, but shouldn't she have been anxious to talk to Anton's relatives? Why didn't she try to begin a relationship with them? The ending was semi-inspirational, but not really satisfying. What about her and Roger? Did she ever go back to America? I thought she'd want to see Ruth again. Read this book only if you really want to know what happens to Patty.
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Summary: this was so disappointing...
Review: I definately consider "summer of my german soldier" to be one of my top 3 favorite books of all time, so of course I was anxious to read the sequel. After reading some disappointing reviews, I was skeptical, but decided I had to read it to find out what ends up happening in Patty's life. Actually, the first half of the book is pretty good, although her relationship with Ruth is not what I pictured it would be, the first half of the book ends well with Patty getting ready to leave for Europe. Through the first part, she goes on about how she misses Anton and what her life has been like over the past 6 yrs. Then come the second part, and let me tell you...almost anyone could have written a better conclusion. It starts out with Patty on a boat to Paris, where she meets a fairly nice guy named Michael, who likes her. They are in love for a while, and there is even the chance of them getting married. Then he makes a joke about her "reeling in a doctor" (he's an american med student at switzerland) and she gets mad at him saying this and all of a sudden realizes that she dosent want him and he is somehow just like her father(although I never understand her point on this.) Soon she is in Paris, and meets another guy named Roger, who is the biggest jerk, and who most resembles everything that is bad about her father. Somehow, she still thinks hes good looking, so she has sex with him less than a day after she meets him! He even asks if it hurt when he entered into her, so this is definately NOT a childrens book! When she finally gets the courage to tell him she's going to Germany (months after she arrived in Paris) he goes wacko and tells her he considers her dead, and dosen't blame her father for disowning her because she is ungrateful to him, etc. Basically, Roger is a younger version of her father. When Patty gets to Germany, thats when she really goes off the wall. She thinks that everybody is a Nazi, and although everyone is really nice to her, she seems to hate them all of a sudden. She goes to the home of Anton, and his father welcomes her in and is really great to her, but once she learns that Mrs.Reiker is dead, she goes without asking him about Anton. That is when Patty really goes anti-German and even gets thrown in jail for making a big scene back at her hotel. She goes back to Paris after calming herself, and realizes that Paris and Roger and the right things for her life, and she is sooo sorry she casued Roger so much pain and she'll never think of Anton again. (At this point, I was about ready to throw up)
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Summary: a surprise
Review: I got this book because it was the sequel to "Summer of my German Soldier", which i thought was good. I didn't really expect anything of it, i thought it would just be about her recovering from his death, and everything, i didn't expect much romance or anything. That's more or less why I got "Summer of my German Soldier", because it had romance. So, i was very surprised to find that there WAS romance in it, alot. Yet it also had more than romance ( no matter how much you love romance, there's always gotta be something else ). It had healing for the death of ANton and doing what should be done, not always what her heart tells her. I'm not big on that, but i admire people who sacrifice something they love to do something they know is right. I can't really do that, and i admire Patty for doing it.
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Summary: Whatever Happened to Anton?
Review: I was so excited to get this book that I picked it up and basically refused to put it down until I was done. When I did put it down, however, I was just left angry.I mean, in "Summer of My German Soldior", the character Anton was so nice, and friendly, and had psychological depth. But in "Morning Is a Long Time Coming", the character Roger was just an annoying, shallow French guy with a one-track mind. Also, in the sequel, Patty seems less mature then when she was twelve. She seems to have gone backwards, and now has the maturity of a two-year-old. She has forgotten practically everything Anton has taught her. And what ever happened to the ring he gave her? Did she lose it? Forget about it? What? Anyway, I would only recommend this book to someone who hated the first one. Because it seems to me that everyone who loved the first book, hated the second.
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Summary: a must have!!
Review: I was so glad to finally find this book!! I've been looking for a copy for awhile. It is the sequal to a terrific book called Summer of My German Soldier (a must have, as well). It is so wonderful to get to find out what happened to the heroine of the first story. You could read this book on its own, but it might get a little confusing. I'd really suggest reading the first novel before proceeding. The books were written for a young teenage audience, but I think that older readers would enjoy it, too. I know that I did, and I'm in my 20's. Bette Greene is a wonderful writer, and this book reflects that. I suggest that everyone read this book!
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Summary: Morning Is A Long Time Coming
Review: It has been six years since the summer that changed Patty Bergen's life forever- the summer she sheltered Anton, an escaped German POW. Her high school graduation should mark a new beginning, but Patty cannot face her future until she comes to terms with her pst. She decides to go to Germany in search of Anton's mother, desperate for a connection to the man she loved and lost. En route, she stops in Paris, where she meets Roger. And now she must think twice about her plan-not only because of what she might find, but because of what she must leave behind....
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Summary: Summer of My German Soldier was better...
Review: Morning is a Long Time Coming was an ok book, but as the sequel to Summer of My German Soldier, I expected much better. This tells the continuing story of Patty, who helped an escaped POW, Anton, when she was 12, during WW2. Now 18, she leaves her abusive family to go to Europe, in hopes of finding her German soldier's family; she wants a better family relationship then she had at home. However, she gets sidetracked in France over a love affair. She and Roger keep having silly arguements, problems spring up, and it gets old after a while. I think that this book should have focused more on her finding Anton's family, rather than a love affair in Paris. The humor was good though, and I liked the French thrown in. This book was all right if you want to know what became of Patty, but it was rather disappointing. If you want a really good read, read Summer of My German Soldier.
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