By: Madeline Martin
I think maybe I have read too many books set in WWII and that is the main reason that I didn’t like this one. Emma finds herself a single mother without many options, when she is offered a job in the Booklover’s Library at Boot’s. She has to pretend she is not a married woman with a child, even though she is widowed in order to keep her job. She loves the job and it allows her to provide for her daughter. Then war comes to England and everything changes.
I loved the concept of the Booklover’s library, which was a real thing and really neat. (more information on wikipedia here). The clients that came in were well written and interesting. But once the war started and Emma had to send her daughter away, it go really tedious. I think this storyline has been overdone, it is tragic and sad and I guess I am just tired of reading about it. Emma was a little whiney for war time, given she was safe and allowed to keep her job.
This book was really well written and well researched. It just didn’t work for me. I received a free galley of this book in exchange for this honest review.
