The Air Raid Book Club
Ratings4
Average rating4.6
The title and cover hooked my attention, but the premise and story itself kept me intrigued most of the time.
I rather enjoyed the charming widow who owned a bookshop and a dog named Hemingway. The book club was fun in the midst of the terror of air raids in WWII. The evacuee children angle was interesting and added depth to the story.
The way the various characters connected over the bookshop and the air raid book club was fantastic and the highlight of this novel for me.
The one thing that disrupted my reading experience was the eleventh-hour admission from Charles. It reminded me of the movie A Testament of Youth; that movie and this book were otherwise fantastic stories that succumbed to one moment of what God calls an abomination (see Leviticus 18:22), which dampened my enjoyment of both stories.
Content: replacement profanity, alcohol, sexual immorality mentioned