Hitler Just Screwed Up Everything, Didn't He?

Eva Ibbotson never fails to weave an interesting plot line. This book actually reminded me a little of The Sound of Music, actually. Austria before Hitler got to it, music, unlikely love connections. Eva Ibbotson never makes it easy for her lovers to get together, but they (usually) do in the end. It might not be in the time that they thought, or the way that they thought, but it happens. Ellen and Marek are no different. They belong together and they both feel it, but are determined to ignore it for different reasons all throughout the book. It absolutely made me want to scream sometimes! I was so frustrated that they just couldn't get together! Of course, when it seems like they have finally found each other, horrible things happen to drive them apart again!! I think this might have been the most frustrating of Eva Ibbotson's books so far! A Song for Summer is definitely a great book as long as the reader doesn't give up hope that everything will turn out all right in the end!