A New Thoene Series – Zion Diaries
August 11th, 2010 | 
Author: ABOUT THE BOOK
As Nazi forces tighten the noose, Loralei Kepler, daughter of a German resistance leader, must flee her beloved Germany. But is any place safe from Adolf Hitler’s evil grasp? Loralei’s harrowing flight leads her into the arms of needy child refugees, who have sacrificed everything in exchange for their lives, and toward a mysterious figure, who closely guards an age-old secret.
Explore the romance, the passion, and the danger of the most anticipated series of the last twenty years.
Born from the highly acclaimed and best-loved novels of three generations of readers — The Zion Covenant series and The Zion Chronicles series — Zion Diaries ventures into the lives of the inspiring and intriguing characters who loved intensely, stood up for what was right, and fought boldly during Hitler’s rise to power and the dark days of World War II.
If you would like to read the first chapter of The Gathering Storm, go HERE
MY THOUGHTS
The Gathering Storm is the first of three books in authors Bodie and Brock Thoene’s new series Zion Diaries. If you’ve read and enjoyed the previous Zion books, I don’t have to tell you anything else other than this book doesn’t disappoint.
The Zion Covenant series and The Zion Chronicle series cover the 1930s and 1940s war years in Europe. The Zion Diaries series fills in a gap between those two series (the time period in WW2 prior to America joining the Allies) and includes some of the characters we met in the previous series.
Did I enjoy The Gathering Storm? Absolutely. The plot line varies in intensity with bombs dropping, babies being born, refugees fleeing for their lives, and love blossoming. The authors carefully crafted their words to pull the reader into the emotions of the characters as they endure the various plights of war.
I really can’t think of much else to say other than if you like the Thoene books, you will love this one! If it’s been awhile since you’ve read the other series, I’d suggest going back and reading the books in order, adding The Gathering Storm to the timeline – I know I wish I had copies of the other books to re-read again!
A special thank you to Summerside Press for sending me a review copy. I appreciate their taking the extra time to answer my phone call and send me another copy after the first one didn’t arrive because of an address issue. This post does not contain any personal affiliate links, and the words under “My Thoughts” are my own.
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Just wanted to say I found a large cache of their various WWII series’ books at Half Price Books for a huge bargain and filled in the missing ones from Amazon, and boy, am I glad to have them. I never get rid of a Thoene book!