The first part Fairchild is free on kindle at the moment. I do admit skimming the last few pages, because I just didn't care about these people & I felt the author had become bored with them too. Although this part of the story is interesting when Anna reunites with him bringing her four year old son into a war zone the final third of the book becomes farcical & features some convenient tidying up of loose ends. This has the characters too much apart - although the love letter Alistair writes is very pretty. There has obviously been some solid research into the times.but unfortunately Alistair is sent off to war again. The middle section was pretty good, (other some lapses into modern speech). This is unfortunate as the plot of this book was quite original. & I found Anna, Alistair & Henry very unlikable at the start of the book. I had to go on Goodreads to read the blurb for Fairchild to make sense of the first third of the novel. I know reading the second in the series before reading the first isn't altogether fair - but most of my life I have read books out of series order & they should make more sense than this. It has been on my kindle for a while, but I decided to read it while on holiday. However, I picked up this book through Bookbub. Although she is still on my friend's list I haven't "spoken" to her in quite some time. I met (& liked very much) Jaima near the start of my time on GR.
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