Keepers of the Faith

I ran across Emilie Loring's name through a friend's review this year and decided to track down some of hers to try. This is the first one I've gotten to read, and I loved it! It's a WW2 story between an heiress and a war hero, a pretend romance in order to discover an enemy agent. The characters are colorful and practically spring off the page.

One thing I loved was that the hero of the piece battles weakness in the form of malaria, and the heroine in the form of having had her life told to her from girlhood.

Why it didn't get a full five stars is that at times the effort to “show not tell” took the dialogue down a bit because the descriptions were done in dialogue instead of told to us succinctly. It lent an air of unreality to a couple conversations, because normal people simply don't stand around and tell each other what they are wearing. :)

Content: some mainstream swears, a few slight references to past adultery