Helpful Score: 3
I had mixed feelings about this book.
The premise (agents for England's SOE during WW2 are betrayed and sent to their deaths) has been done before - the Foyle's War episode "Elise" (Season 8) was suggested by the same history. In this book a young woman in 1946 New York finds some photos and tries to trace them to return them, and in the process discovers what happened to the girls in the photos; she also finds a romantic interest. To my mind, the SOE betrayal was done far better in the Foyle's War episode. The romance between the two 1946 New York characters seems pallid, and neither hero nor heroine seems a fully rounded character. The heroine's reason for becoming obsessed with tracing the history of these photographs didn't seem strong enough to me; it really was mere curiosity on her part yet she pursues it as if it were something much more crucial to her.
That said, I did finish the book. I don't feel it was stupid or badly written, but I felt a little bit disappointed that there wasn't more substance to it.
The premise (agents for England's SOE during WW2 are betrayed and sent to their deaths) has been done before - the Foyle's War episode "Elise" (Season 8) was suggested by the same history. In this book a young woman in 1946 New York finds some photos and tries to trace them to return them, and in the process discovers what happened to the girls in the photos; she also finds a romantic interest. To my mind, the SOE betrayal was done far better in the Foyle's War episode. The romance between the two 1946 New York characters seems pallid, and neither hero nor heroine seems a fully rounded character. The heroine's reason for becoming obsessed with tracing the history of these photographs didn't seem strong enough to me; it really was mere curiosity on her part yet she pursues it as if it were something much more crucial to her.
That said, I did finish the book. I don't feel it was stupid or badly written, but I felt a little bit disappointed that there wasn't more substance to it.
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