florapants84 's review for:

The War I Finally Won by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

5.0

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"Love isn't as rare as you think it is...You can love all sorts of people, in all sorts of ways. Nor is love in any way dangerous."

I've devoured this series within a week of "discovering" it, and now don't know what to do with myself. Thoroughly enjoyable and edifying. I would eat it if I could. I loved all of the historical elements that Bradley weaved into this story, an account of war in the English countryside from the perspective of a young girl evacuated from East End London. Though she's healed physically, the internal struggles with fear and anger Ada is in the process of overcoming, were written in such a charming manner. I forgot many times that I was reading a middle grade novel. Pssssh. This hit a heart spot in the way only shows like Home Fires, Call the Midwives, and Anne with an E can. I hope deep down that there will be a sequel to the sequel. One can dream, can't they?

"You can know things all you like, and someday you might believe them."