• The Puppet Maker's Daughter

  • A startling and emotional WWII novel
  • By: Karla M. Jay
  • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
  • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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The Puppet Maker's Daughter

By: Karla M. Jay
Narrated by: Virtual Voice
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Hungary 1944. The war comes late to Budapest. Nineteen-year-old Marika, forced out of nursing school, believes she and her Jewish family will remain safe, even as Nazi soldiers fill their cobbled streets. With Russians to their east, the Allies to their west, everyone assumes the war is nearly over. Her father, once a prominent engineer, returns to his passion for puppet making. Soon, she is pulled into the resistance to rescue orphans and displaced Jews while keeping her family one step ahead of Eichmann’s extermination plans.

As the world turns dark around her, the fanatical Arrow Cross Party, a ruthless group that listens to no one including the Germans, unleashes a killing spree on the remaining Jews of Europe. One day, as peril intensifies, she must make a decision that puts her in extreme danger to save herself, her family, and the orphans she’s sheltered.

Will she regret that moment for the rest of her life?

This a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of family even if the members are patched together with remnants of other shattered lives.

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Audiobook is AI generated and doesn’t match the tone of the story or words correctly

Partially listened to this book as an audiobook and I do not recommend. The narration was AI generated and did not match the tone of the heartbreaking story or even say many words correctly. For example, the audio would say “Polish” as in the language people from Poland speak like “polish” as in nail polish or the stuff you rub on furniture to make it shine. Horrible mistake given two of the children characters were polish refugees in a story about WWII.
Take my advice- skip this audiobook and read the book instead.

Here’s hoping the publisher will either get a fitting human to read this story OR at least take the time to fix the errors in the AI generation.

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Virtual narration pronunciation

I give the book a 3. My first time listening to one with virtual narration. I didn’t think I would like it. Overall it wasn’t too bad, but several recurring words are mispronounced. Such as Polish being pronounced as the verb polish. Several names are not pronounced correctly and when they add an s to make something plural, it might change the pronunciation of the word. 2 stars for virtual narration.

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