3.71 AVERAGE


Very well written with the plot lines and characters slowly revealing themselves. Pleasing end.
hopeful inspiring reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

So simple, it belongs on the 8th grade summer reading list. Overly sweet, but still, I wanted to keep reading to find out what happened.... and it only took a few hours to read.
emotional inspiring medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Had all the workings to be a really sweet story with so much potential to be great. The ending was really rushed and I found that frustrating. 
informative reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
emotional hopeful informative inspiring relaxing sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This was just an okay book. I appreciated that it was lighter than so many WW2 books, and it was clean. However, there was an immense conflict between the two main characters that the author could have delved more deeply into. As it was, there was just surface tension between the two people and it results in the story not ringing quite as true as it could have. On the whole, the lack of character depth is my biggest complaint. The story was great but the whole structure needed more depth to make the characters truly come alive.
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"But I had never run my life in order to meet men or find romance, although I wasn’t immune to those things, either. I’d always dreamed that someday love would come into my life in some spectacular fashion."

This book has been on my list for a long time, and it did not disappoint.  The ending was more abrupt than I would have liked, but otherwise the storyline played out very nicely. The writing was great, and I felt like it was easy to really connect with the characters.  
hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes