jbrooks79 's review for:

Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

4.0

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Another book from the Genealogy Gems bookclub, this one did a great job of portraying the losses and destruction of war. It definitely kept me guessing - just when I thought it would go in a predictable directions, it would shift gears. The parallel stories moved the action around and along. Not all of the characters seemed real to me - but I could find something to care about with each one. Each chapter title is a month of the war. I was stunned to realize how much Britain, and especially London, had suffered before the Americans joined the effort. The Blitz has always seemed more of a lark to me. But it must have terrifying and more destructive than my modern view of London shows. I will be forever grateful to the British people for fighting on alone against hopeless odds. I had no idea...