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3.89 AVERAGE
3.89 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny, Sexism
Moderate: War, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Grief
Forgot to post a review of this!
Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce.
Emmeline Lake works for a well known women’s magazine during the Second World War.
She starts off helping out with the advice column but after a slip of the tongue she ends up on something much bigger.
This book is such an empowering novel to show that you can start to make a change if you believe in something enough. Emmy and the friends she makes along the way show the true power of joining together to make a stand.
I enjoyed this Novel by AJ Pearce and found it an easy read that just flowed from start to finish.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Three Stars
Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce.
Emmeline Lake works for a well known women’s magazine during the Second World War.
She starts off helping out with the advice column but after a slip of the tongue she ends up on something much bigger.
This book is such an empowering novel to show that you can start to make a change if you believe in something enough. Emmy and the friends she makes along the way show the true power of joining together to make a stand.
I enjoyed this Novel by AJ Pearce and found it an easy read that just flowed from start to finish.
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Three Stars
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This is Book 2 in the Dear Mrs Bird series and just like book one I absolutely loved it. I listened to it on audible and the narrator was excellent, the narrator really makes an audiobook I think. This story kept my interest the whole way through. I love reading about this time in history (WW2). A book with a great story which continues on from the first book. I would recommend reading Dear Mrs Bird first to get familiar with the characters .
2.5 stars. I wanted to like this (and the first in the series, [b:Dear Mrs. Bird|36373413|Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles #1)|A.J. Pearce|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1515690904l/36373413._SY75_.jpg|81085892]) so much, so I keep reading them, but they've both fallen flat for me.
The premise is right up my alley: WWII on the English home front at a women's magazine, with plot lines derived from issues women actually faced during this time (which the author's note, referencing the sources she consulted, including actual 1930s/1940s women's magazines, makes clear). Both books in the series use a real-life event — the March 1941 bombing of the Café de Paris and the December 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor — as a catalyst for driving the plot forward.
Unfortunately, I can't get over feeling that these books — much like [b:The House in the Cerulean Sea|45047384|The House in the Cerulean Sea|T.J. Klune|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1569514209l/45047384._SY75_.jpg|62945242] — are written in a style more appropriate for a YA or even middle grade audience than an adult one. While the war and its devastations are omnipresent in the narrative, the books feel light as a creampuff, the characters strangely never use contractions or swear, Emmy continually makes the sort of impulsive decisions characteristic of a teen, and many of the secondary characters (from histrionic teenage magazine intern Hester to mean girls Freddie and Diane) are one-dimensional caricatures. The overall effect is unpleasantly insubstantial and saccharine.
Will I be able to resist the inevitable 3rd installment in the Emmeline Lake Chronicles? I hope so, but my wishful thinking that these novels will live up to their catnip premise may well convince me to hope that the 3rd try will indeed be the charm.
The premise is right up my alley: WWII on the English home front at a women's magazine, with plot lines derived from issues women actually faced during this time (which the author's note, referencing the sources she consulted, including actual 1930s/1940s women's magazines, makes clear). Both books in the series use a real-life event — the March 1941 bombing of the Café de Paris and the December 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor — as a catalyst for driving the plot forward.
Unfortunately, I can't get over feeling that these books — much like [b:The House in the Cerulean Sea|45047384|The House in the Cerulean Sea|T.J. Klune|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1569514209l/45047384._SY75_.jpg|62945242] — are written in a style more appropriate for a YA or even middle grade audience than an adult one. While the war and its devastations are omnipresent in the narrative, the books feel light as a creampuff, the characters strangely never use contractions or swear, Emmy continually makes the sort of impulsive decisions characteristic of a teen, and many of the secondary characters (from histrionic teenage magazine intern Hester to mean girls Freddie and Diane) are one-dimensional caricatures. The overall effect is unpleasantly insubstantial and saccharine.
Will I be able to resist the inevitable 3rd installment in the Emmeline Lake Chronicles? I hope so, but my wishful thinking that these novels will live up to their catnip premise may well convince me to hope that the 3rd try will indeed be the charm.
emotional
hopeful
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
fluffy enough, def part of the "idealized historical fiction that wants to remind you there were good people in the past doing the right thing but doesn't want to think too hard about the shades of gray" genre
i just Did Not remember Anything from the first book so i just had this vaguely glazed look in my eyes the whole time i was reading
anyways if you read this right after the first one it would probably be a much better experience
i just Did Not remember Anything from the first book so i just had this vaguely glazed look in my eyes the whole time i was reading
anyways if you read this right after the first one it would probably be a much better experience