Not my usual genre but I enjoyed this tale of the two women who fall in love, Jean being the person delivering milk every day to the young widow Alice. I liked the postwar setting in small-town New Zealand, and would read more from this author.

I was enticed to read this, thinking I was getting historical fiction about two women finding love in a small town. Not historical, but an ok (predictable) romance.

After a couple of attempts at reading this novel, I have finally turned the last page. From the synopsis, i thought this novel would be one that I would enjoy. All I can say is that this book wasn't really for me. It wasn't that it was not a good book, it's just the I couldn't connect to the characters and found the pace a little slow for my liking. It is the first time that I have read a romance between two women and did so in order to try something different.

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I enjoyed this wonderful love story of two women in the early 1900's. A time when this type of love affair was not accepted.
Told brilliantly, these ladies pursued to obtain their happiness and raise Alice's children and to make a complete life of love and peace.
Proven: True love is True love!

"Alice & Jean" is a nice enough love story, but the characters don't really get a lot of development. We never really learn why and how Alice and Jean fall in love, instead the story starts when they are already infatuated with each other and thinking how they are both very pretty all the time.

The villains of the novel are awful people with no redeeming features and the threat they pose feels real enough. It's nice to read about how the women of the town band together to help Alice, but it feels somewhat unrealistic that nobody really seems to mind Alice's and Jean's relationship with the exception of Alice's mother and Big Jim. Especially the ending tied up things a little too neatly, which made the story fell somewhat unrealistic.

Overall, this is a fluffy love story, easy to read, but it doesn't really have a lot of depth.

Loved it! Couldn't put it down, especially in the first part when Alice and Jean like each others but still nothing has happened. A book you hope it ends well because you get connected with the characters. Hope to read more by this author.