Lane In Her Lane At Her Best. This book is Lane returning to the straight historical after a multi-year adventure in combining her romance and historical sides with the Lost Daughters series, and while that series showed just how great an author she is via doing something I’ve *very* rarely – if ever – seen anyone else pull off (the fusion of both contemporary and historical romance), this book is more about Lane reasserting that yes, she will draw *exactly* the emotions out of you that she wants even in a pure historical women’s fiction tale. If she wants your heart beating, I hope you don’t have a heart condition, because your pulse *will* be pounding with the suspense. If she wants that room to be quite dusty indeed – no matter where her characters happen to be at that moment – the room you’re in will find itself indeed quite dusty.
This is also Lane’s return to an explicitly concentration camp based tale, and as with the other tales where she has gone *here*, she absolutely pulls no punches. She brings these places to life quite viscerally, in all of their squalor and hopelessness… and in the fight to keep hope alive even in the absolute worst possible conditions.
Overall this is a true master of her particular style of writing doing what she does at least as good as anyone else and better than quite many indeed. If you enjoy WWII tales of any shape, you’re going to enjoy this one. If you want to read of hope even in the most hopeless of circumstances, you’re going to want to read this book. If you want to read of women banding together to do what it takes to survive even in the toughest conditions imaginable, you’re going to want to read this book.
Very much recommended.
This review of The Underground Sisters by Soraya M. Lane was originally written on June 19, 2026.