The Beast's Garden

By: Kate Forsyth

Narrated by: Jennifer Vuletic

Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins

Publisher's summary

Ava fell in love the night the Nazis first showed their true nature to the world. A retelling of the Grimms' Beauty and the Beast, set in Nazi Germany.

It's August 1939 in Germany, and Ava's world is in turmoil. To save her father, she must marry a young Nazi officer, Leo von Löwenstein, who works for Hitler's spy chief in Berlin. However, she hates and fears the brutal Nazi regime and finds herself compelled to stand against it.

Ava joins an underground resistance movement that seeks to help victims survive the horrors of the German war machine. But she must live a double life, hiding her true feelings from her husband even as she falls in love with him. Gradually she comes to realise that Leo is part of a dangerous conspiracy to assassinate Hitler.

As Berlin is bombed into ruins, the Gestapo ruthlessly hunt down all resistance, and Ava finds herself living hand to mouth in the rubble of the shell-shocked city. Both her life and Leo's hang in the balance.

Filled with danger, intrigue and romance, The Beast's Garden, a retelling of the Grimm brothers' Beauty and The Beast, is a beautiful, compelling love story set in a time when the world seemed on the brink of collapse.

©2015 Kate Forsyth (P)2015 Audible, Ltd

Loved it!

This book kept me hooked throughout its entire length. Well researched and beautiful written. I plan to read more by this author.

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! One of my new favorites ♡

This book was outstanding; the narrator was the best I've heard and the plot was instantly captivating. The ending didn't give as much detail of the character's outcomes as I would have liked but it didn't diminish my opinion of the overall storyline. LOVED THIS BOOK!

Well-researched and engaging tale of Nazi Germany.

the author included many fascinating and true people and events from world war II in this fictional tale. The characters were fascinating, I love the juxtaposition of Nazi officers and their wives as well as Jews in concentration camps and resistance fighters. The love story, while being Central to the story, was almost distracting at times because I wanted to know what was happening with all the other characters!

The performance of this audiobook was incredible. I was blown away by the readers skill with the German words and accents. it's certainly added to my enjoyment of the overall book.

Amazing Historical Fiction Set in Nazi Germany

This book was fantastic. It's a twist on one of the original fairy-tales that Beauty and the Beast is based off of, and it's set in Berlin during World War 2. The book covers so much of a time in Germany when so much was so wrong, and one girls fight as she lives a double life fighting the Nazi regime and falling in love with the German Officer she was forced to marry in order to save herself and her family.

This book is filled with so much emotional, historical relevance, and deep deep thought. What would I do in that situation? How terrifying, and how much we can learn from even fictional characters about who we are, and a what we must prevent from ever happening again.

Didn't want this book to end!

Wow, this book was so good. I love WWII era history, and any book I can get my hands on I'll read. This book was great because it was a perspective I'd never really encountered before. you always read books about English or American people of WWII, or maybe another country that was occupied by he Nazis. But this story was right in the heart of Nazi Germany, an insider view. I never even really knew there was a German resistance because you just never hear of it. this story was thrilling ad kept me interested the whole time. I was honestly a bit sad when it ended. best book I've listened to in a while.

riveting Nazi story

I was enthralled by this story. loved it but was a bit irritated by the narrator and her different voices.

Remarkable story of Nazi Germany

This story gives you a first person view of how it was to live in Nazi Germany. I found it to be a compelling story of Germany and Jewish existence during this trying time. Written as historical fiction it is based on factual research of the time.

great book

loved it. Fabulous WONDERFUL book! hated it to end. reader is the Best. u won't be disappointed. exciting from beginning to end

Stunning historical novel with great meaning

One might think a book about Nazi Germany would be difficult to read. Indeed there are passages that convey the horrors, and caused me to wince, or even cry. But this novel is so exquisitely researched and written, and the characters within so well-developed, that it is a real “page-turner.” A truly gripping tale, the story provides tension and drama despite knowing, of course, how the larger events would all turn out in the end. It’s not exactly easy or comfortable, with graphic descriptions of some of the horrors of the Nazi regime. But those very horrors are part of the reason to read this book, lest we forget how ordinary citizens can find themselves turning a blind eye to growing fascism, and allowing and supporting a regime based on lies, violence, and racial hatred. Highly worthwhile and educational reading.

One of the best books I've ever listened to

Heartbreaking but good does prevail. Not all nazis were evil. And I'm glad to have read about these hitler resisters It shows true friendship and blood is not always thicker than water. Highly recommend.