Janice_W

This is the first time reading this author, and to tell you the truth, I wasn't impressed. I felt the characters were not fleshed out and after finishing the book, I felt like I wasted my time. The father character wasn't truly addressed fully until the end of the book and even though he was a cad, he deserved more than one chapter. Lori, the mother was the main focus of the first part and then dumped until the end. And, Josie, she was a hurt young woman whose life was marginalized by the author. Just not my cup of tea.

This was a wonderful, fanciful book, a love story on several levels and a pleasure to read.
In fact, I liked it so much that I bought two more books by this author.

This is a book in search of a genre ... is it a historical romance; historical fiction or a mystery? Beats me. It was a chore to read and left me impressed with the author's foray into history but unimpressed with the book.
The premise has a girl of 18 trooping through the battlefields in France. Somehow she is allowed by a retreating army to crawl through battlefields still laden with bodies and armaments to locate her boyfriend who has been declared missing in action. The whole of the rest of the novel has her meeting other military people who may or may not help her. The novel could be shortened considerably by chopping out 100 or so pages which waste time and reading the first 100 pages and the last 30.