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By Mal Peet

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Tamar is s story about love and betrayal. It takes place in 1945 in the Netherlands when a special agent and his partner are sent to help defeat the Nazis. During this mission love for the same women diminishes their friendship and puts them against each other. Only one makes it out of this story alive, and with him is the women of his dreams.

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Love is extremely powerful. I believe it is the most intense emotion that humans encounter. Love forces people to take drastic measures and do things they wouldn't typically do. It has the ability to create hate and put friend against friend.

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The first connection this book has to the theme is how love destroys the relationship between Tamar and Dart. They have fought a war together and are bounded like brothers until they fall in love with the same women. This extremely powerful emotion leads Dart to plot and kill Tamar. This proves that love can put a fried against a friend and force people to take drastic measures. It shows the overwhelming power that love has.

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Tamar leaves his granddaughter with a box full of clues about his life and death. When she receives this box, she takes off with her distant cousin Yoyo to the Netherlands in order to uncover her grandfathers past. While reliving her grandfathers life she begins to fall in love with Yoyo. She realizes how strong the emotion is and seems to understand how a sane man could have killed her grandfather in the name of love.

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Love is an extremely broad word. There are so many different types of love. Some of which I have experienced and many of which I have not. Personally, I understand its power and ability to alter lives. I enjoyed this book because I wasn't expecting to get anything deep out of it. I thought it would be just another action packed war book, but there much deeper content involved.

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Dart ends up fleeing the Netherlands and marrying the women he killed for. As their lives go on neither of them are authentically happy. Dart feels that his wife is only settling with him only because Tamar is gone. His wife realizes she doesn't truly love Dart but did love Tamar. This proves that you cannot fake love. This also shows loves ability to tear apart ones life. Darts wife will never truly be happy for she will forever grieve the love of her life's death.