Trini Girl Reads: Book Tour: Love Behind Enemy Lines by Jeanette Anderson @bookreviewcrew

Blurb:

Before the Security Fence divided them, and suicide bombers and airstrikes destroyed their lives, Palestinian Jannah al-Jarbouni and Israeli, Efron Oved, were friends.

After years of separation, Efron, now twenty-two and an Israeli soldier, finds Jannah being transported from an Israeli prison. He reaches out to win her trust, but with every fiber of Jannah’s soul, down to the marrow aching in her bones, she has vowed that the Israelis will pay for killing her family.

When Jannah must decide whether to get medical aid for Efron to save his life, or turn him in for a prisoner exchange, which will inevitably include torture, they become trapped indoors. The one-time friends struggle with how they will survive amid spies, murders, and kidnappings, and ultimately rise above the lies and betrayal to find peace.

A Palestinian bomber, suicide recruiter, and terrorist may hold the secret to freeing Jannah from her dark abyss of revenge. But that revelation will force her to choose between letting the man live who massacred her family and dying herself.

My thoughts:

"Her people were the bleakest people on earth, she thought. There was no waking from the nightmares. They were real. The rest of the world knew nothing about their suffering, nor could they understand."

This book shook me to the core. What an important work of art.

Jeanette Anderson takes the reader to a situation where few can relate and wrote it so well that you were able to feel every emotion, the hurt, the pain, the despair, the desperation, the joy and the love experienced by every single character.

This book illustrated what it would be like to live in a country that is divided along ethnic lines and the effects it has on the people. Jannah was depicted as fearless in some parts of the book but as the story progressed we read that she became vulnerable which is what I think happens to most faced by the horrors of living in a nation void of peace and carrying the hurt of loosing loved ones. The role Efron played was quite interesting to read. I think it is the best way I can describe him without giving it all away.

I actually felt the most emotion for Besan, her situation being in jail pregnant and then what happened to her next really touched my heart. the situation spoke to many issues including the treatment of women in the prison system. Zamill (I do not want to give away the whole story), but for those reading the book or who may have read it, I understood completely many of his actions and why he acted in that way. It is indeed difficult to find peace when everyone is seeking vengeance.

Profound!!! And great in every way. This is a good read.

Well done!!!!

Meet Jeanette Anderson:

Born in the California, Bay area, I'm in love with the ocean and try get to the beach someplace around the world at least once a year. I enjoy hiking and bicycling. I never thought I'd get to college, see a UFO or visit the city of Pompeii, but I've done them all. Ours is a blended family of eight children and their spouses, fourteen grandchildren and one great-grandchild, making it a very long dinner table during the holidays. Years ago, I was steering down the steep, windy lane from the Sundance Ski Resort when my heart began to pound. The car behind me had closed the gap between us on the mountainside. Maybe he was a psychopath who would drive me off the road, attack and stab me to death. Maybe I was being chased by my handsome lover who had begged me not to leave him, was aching to hold me in his arms and wouldn't let me go. Maybe it was both. My hands froze on the steering wheel when at the T-junction the suspicious driver pulled up beside me. When he turned in the opposite direction, and the chase was over, I decided it was time. As an accomplished and published ghost writer with over twenty-five years of experience, my subconscious was calling me to enter the world of fiction. Its been a wonderful adventure to follow that voice.