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jmercado (1 KP) rated Rikki (Hart University, #1) in Books

Jan 15, 2018  
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Rikki (Hart University, #1)
Abigail Strom | 2015
6
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
<strong>3.5 stars</strong>

Quick fun read
Completed in one day

This was a nice take on an enemy to lovers scenario that had a few twists that broke your typical ya vibes.

I loved the fact there was no slut shamming and the lgbtq+ aspects that were brought in

I could really appreciate the mc coming to terms with trying to figure out what she wants in a relationship and to me this had good insight to what transitions people go through leaving high school and entering college.

As much as this was a romanced based book I kind of felt that the last two chapters were very flat and somewhat unnecessary.

I think if they had left the mc’s as they were prior to the last two chapters I would have been a bit more satisfied.

I think if we could have seen the mc grow without the love interest would have made it a bit more unique

Or if the character development further progressed I may have thought differently about the two staying separate.

But this was still an amazing book on its own and I look forward to reading more in the series.
  
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Hazel (2934 KP) rated The Midwife's Child (WW2 Resistance Series #3) in Books

May 21, 2023  
The Midwife&#039;s Child (WW2 Resistance Series #3)
The Midwife's Child (WW2 Resistance Series #3)
Amanda Lees | 2023 | History & Politics
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
The Midwife's Child is an emotional rollercoaster that although is work of fiction, it's based on things that actually happened and real people with the love story element between Maggie and Jamie being based on the true story of a Scottish Commando who met a young woman in a displaced persons camp who had survived the death march.

This is the third in this series but I think it works successfully as a standalone because whilst there are recurring characters, each book is a separate story which focusses on one of those recurring characters.

The Midwife's Child centres around Maggie, a former SOE Special Operations Executive) but now incarcerated in Auschwitz following her capture. There she finds herself working in the camp hospital where the devil incarnate, Joseph Mengele, practised his infamous experiments and where Maggie is determined to save the life of her friend Eva and new born, Leah. The end of the war is fast approaching and the Russians are getting close, Eva is too unwell to go on the forced march so she begs Maggie to save her child and reunite her with her father. A seemingly impossible task but one which Maggie vows to complete.

Told from two timelines, from her time as a doctor working in the 'hospital' at Auschwitz towards the end of the war and the period afterwards, The Midwife's Child is a story of exceptional courage, duty, love, friendship and hope and a story that I highly recommended to those of you who enjoy this genre and I have to thank Bookouture and NetGalley for enabling me to read and share my thoughts of The Midwife's Child.
  
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ClareR (5879 KP) rated The Trick to Time in Books

Nov 6, 2018  
The Trick to Time
The Trick to Time
Kit De Waal | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry
10
10.0 (2 Ratings)
Book Rating
A surprisingly beautiful novel.
I knew (and hoped) that this was going to be a good book, based on Kit de Waal's previous book 'My Name is Leon'. I have not been let down. I loved this. If it wasn't a library book, I would probably have turned back to the start and begun again.
This is the story of Mona: her life as a child, a young woman and an older woman (in the present day). She moves from Ireland to England to work and find more excitement than the village life she has experienced in Ireland, leaving her father behind (her mother dies when she is young). She meets a young Irish man and marries him. We skip between the present day and her past from chapter to chapter. In the present day, Mona hand makes dolls which she sells online around the world. These wooden dolls are made by 'the carpenter' and Mona makes their clothes. She meets a German 'gentleman' who always seems a little pushy to me (he made me feel uncomfortable).
It's the gradual revelations that really affected me: the hard life she had and the heartache. Such a beautifully written, emotional novel.