Book Review: "The Last Year of War" By Susan Meissner

Elise is your typical Iowa teen but one thing that's not so typical is having her father arrested for on suspicion of being a Nazi sympathizer during the war.

Now facing her own insecurities she must address the cruel world all while keeping her own dreams alive behind the internment camp fence.

Feeling stripped of her identity she meets Mariko a Japanese American teen from LA whose friendship provides hope for a greater life beyond the walls of barbed wire and armed guards.

She learns that love may truly be possible and that life can go on if only you believe in you.
Good loving people do exists and often in the most unlikely of situations do you uncover the truths. 

I absolutely adored the characters and the romance that took place with Elise and her fellow companion. Ironically the first one she married is not who she ultimately stayed with and lived out her life with and that remarkable sense of knowing what she wanted and not being fearful to go after it was unique in its own right.

A great read!