Post B Week 8 Suite Francaise

So I have just finished Suite Francaise, and I would have to say that I loved the second part of this book! The first half was interesting, but it was depressing, the characters were condesending and full of resentments torward everyone and everything. They were forced to leave Paris, France, because of the defeat of France by the Germans in World War II. Why exactly there was a mass exodus, I do not quite understand, as the civillians are in just as much peril in the suburbs of France as they are in Paris, as they are still France. The second half of teh book was about the occupation of the French towns by German soldiers. The towns people were all in the comfort of thier homes, and the Germans were civil and in most cases, genuinely nice. Love blossoms betweem several civilian women and the soldiers. Though it was still about the war, the tension between the sides was subdued, and instead of being about the war as a whole, it showed the intrests of the people and how they were torn between loyalty to thier country and loyalty to themselves.