Kimberley Burg's Reviews > Resistance Women

does it have bad words, or sexual scenes?

I felt the same way about the similarity to our current US situation as I read the book.

You know what- I kept thinking the same thing when I was reading it- how much it is like our current situation

Even tho is hard to even think what about the Holocaust is the most disturbing, I'm always unsettled by how gradual it all was. I don't want to get paranoid or anything, but I always think of this whenever I get lazy in regards to keeping up with politics, legislation and the sort-it just wakes me up a bit to the importance of paying attention to small changes and a gradual, imperceptible/unnoticeable shift, because of the eventual situations they may precede.

Can't wait to get this book. I love Chiaverini. I've read every book she has written.

i agree that this book is unsettling as it is so similar to what is happening in our country. Some of the sentences belong in today's papers..............very scary.

I am in the process of reading the book and I agree, it sounds like today in the US political world-It is scary. The research for this book is excellent.

I am midway thru the book and I too feel the similarities to our current environment due to the policies of this administration. Very scary!

How does it “sound” like our politics today? That is a big statement.

THIS WAS ECACTLY MY THOUGHT TOO!!!

Well, one way is one can compare Antifa to the Brown Shirts!

I completely agree. One of the paragraphs about change just for the sake of it was very reminiscent of today's politics. I am not done yet but many chilling similarities.

I agree also. We are to be mindful of world events and learn from the mistakes of the past and work hard that they are not repeated.

All the way through this book I was also reminded of our current situation in the U.S. The similarities are impossible to ignore. Scary!

I'm currently reading it, up to page 142 and having read many WW2 books and novels, I'm really enjoying it.

I do not see the correlation with the US
And facist Germany??

I felt the same way about our current situation. At one point when they are talking about their leaders, they say they don’t know who to believe(so true in our country today) and at another point they are thinking that the unbelievable could never occur in their country. I too have felt this about America. I never thought our country would just shut down or that people would treat one another the way they are now. It’s crazy!

I couldn’t agree with you more. I felt the same way. Eerily similar to today’s leftists in this country.

So many comments posted reflect my own impressions halfway through book. Refusal to accept election results, calling main stream press liars- sound familiar. Dictators share similar traits, regardless of geography.

This was a favorite of mine. I like Chiaverini's stand alone books better than the quilting series. I am currently reading "Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker".

I liked it very much. I really like her stand alone books.
Good historical fiction.

I agree that there’s similarities in this book to the US today. It was scary reading some parts.

Oh my hosh I am just so happy to see that others saw the parallels to current day piloting in the United States

I know you wrote this years ago but my goodness I can’t help reading all the current similarities into this book

Barbara wrote: "Well, one way is one can compare Antifa to the Brown Shirts!"

Don't forget to add the Marxist, anti-family, anti-Semitic, domestic terrorist organization Black Lives Matter.

Zippy wrote: "Oh my hosh I am just so happy to see that others saw the parallels to current day piloting in the United States"

All through the book I noticed that the Democrats are also consolidating power the same way the National Socialists did, by "not letting a good crisis go to waste" and taking advantage of the COVID pandemic. The Democrats already have the media sewn up. Look how they got away with their treatment of President Trump.

I agree that the book eerily reflected the mood and attitude of our country today. Fascism can pop up anywhere if the citizens allow it.

I've read a lot of WW2 books in the last 2 years and the similarities in all of them to the situations today are scary. We have also asked the question on how the Holocaust could happen, but with current situations the way they are, you can easily see how it happened and it's so sad. Did we learn nothing?

It is interesting and noteworthy that so many see parallels to current political issues, but see them from different sides of today's politics.

I think the American people have finally seen what the Democrats are about. The Democrats are rightfully dreading the coming midterm elections.

I too was struck eerily by the similarities to todays politics.

Just reading this book and as a child of a mother who survived Nazi Germany, I can’t help but see the early similarities to her experience and our current political situation which seems impossible, but showing signs of fascism and control of women, education, and our political system.

Dang, five years later… just finished this and was thinking the same!

Couldn’t agree more. A bit terrifying.

February 2025, as I am reading this, I can't help but make massive comparisons from this book to current events in the US. Terrifying. So many similarities.

Me too.

I agree! Years later and a more precarious political situation. I had to take time to remind myself I wasn’t reading a current newspaper.

It’s terrifying how people can be so easily manipulated into blaming others, who are struggling as well, for the problems that the people in charge create. I’m scared

November 2025- so many parallels to the US today, that if we changed the names, locations, and dates, we’d be reading a book about our life in the present tense.