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Title: The Little Parachute

Author: J. Robert Janes

Narrator: Philip Bird

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-08-16

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

The moment Angelique arrives in Paris, she is taken prisoner by the SS. In a lonely little room, she is put in a chair with leather straps and a bloodstained seat and ordered to tell her captors everything she knows about the resistance. But Angelique knows nothing. She cares only for Martin, the boy who has been unable to speak since the bombs first fell during the Blitzkrieg. He has a secret - and she will protect it until her dying breath. Though Angelique loves him like her own, Martin is not her son. He came to her from the sky, brought by a parachute dropped by the British, and if the Germans learn his true identity, it will mean certain death for both of them.

Members Reviews:

Interesting plot but choppy writing.

While the detailed description of Paris during the Nazi occupation, i.e., the shortage of food for the populace, the efforts of the underground resistance tothe German occupiers, the horrific tortures of prisoners while in the hands of the Gestapo, etc., I found the author's writing to be choppy and the story line didn't "flow" easily. The plot -- a French woman and the young son of her lover ,dropped into her hands by parachute by the British and who is unable to speak due to a bombing -- are struggling to survive.after being captured by the Gestapo. If the true identity of the boy is discovered, both his "adoptive" mother and he will be executed. The plot ws interesting, but the writing. in my opinion, left a lot to be desired. I much prefer works by Joseph Roth who better described Paris just before the German assault .

Difficult Narration

There is some good stuff in Little Parachute - the tightening screws of the SS on the secret resistance fighters, the ins and out of Parisian life during the war and the fine line many walked during this time of rations, rules, scrutiny and grave danger. That said, The Little Parachute gets in its own way with the choppy narrative and writing style. The story jumps around and is often interrupted by French sayings when we already know the language of most characters is French. This is a story that can be told simply but gets very bogged down by the different characters and the hopping about in the narration that has no clear direction. This shouldn't be, but it is a rather hard book to get into and there is nol rhythm to the story for the reader. It's choppy and there's groove to it. This work needs more polish for a reader to appreciate the characters and their plight.

The sum is less than the parts

Reading this put me in mind of riding shotgun in an old Datsun driven by someone who is learning to use a stick shift. Just as you string together a few moments of enjoyment, you're distracted by the grinding of gears.

Although the time and place in which this book is set lends itself to a startling, uneven narrative flow, that does not seem to be what is going on here.