Helpful Score: 2
I found this book disappointing. It does not have the "flavor" of the WW2 era, nor does it have a British feel to it. It was shelved in amidst the adult fiction, but it is written at a YA level. I know it's getting hard to speak with people who lived during that era, or knew it from their parents, but it just sounds too modern. At no point did I feel that these characters were real individuals living in 1939. As a love story, it's on the tepid side.
I would recommend it for middle school kids, to whom WW2 is a totally unknown era, as it would give them some orientation to what life was like then, but for adults there are much better current authors for this period - Kate Quinn being one. Or read some British authors who lived in that time - Daphne DuMaurier, Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham.
I would recommend it for middle school kids, to whom WW2 is a totally unknown era, as it would give them some orientation to what life was like then, but for adults there are much better current authors for this period - Kate Quinn being one. Or read some British authors who lived in that time - Daphne DuMaurier, Graham Greene, Somerset Maugham.
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