A Ration Book Daughter is about Cathy Brogan a young woman living in London, with her young son Peter, during the Blitz. Her violent husband has been declared missing in action and she is counting down the days until she is declared a widow and can officially be free of him.
This is the 5th in the Ration Book series about the every day lives of the Brogan family as they deal with everything that's thrown at them, against the backdrop of the blitz.
Unfortunately, having read the previous books, although I was looking forward to this one, I found it quite dull and repetitive in comparison to the others. I felt the writing was overly descriptive, it lack the emotion to pull me into the life of Cathy and Peter, and I found myself wishing it would hurry up and end.
Maybe, having read the others I was comparing it unfavourably, or maybe just a change of families dealing with the Blitz would have been a refreshing change for me, sorry if this is not a popular review, but its just my honest opinion.
This is the 5th in the Ration Book series about the every day lives of the Brogan family as they deal with everything that's thrown at them, against the backdrop of the blitz.
Unfortunately, having read the previous books, although I was looking forward to this one, I found it quite dull and repetitive in comparison to the others. I felt the writing was overly descriptive, it lack the emotion to pull me into the life of Cathy and Peter, and I found myself wishing it would hurry up and end.
Maybe, having read the others I was comparing it unfavourably, or maybe just a change of families dealing with the Blitz would have been a refreshing change for me, sorry if this is not a popular review, but its just my honest opinion.