I seemed to have mixed feelings about this one. I enjoyed the historical fiction aspects and the basic premise of the romance, but didn't really enjoy them together as much as I would have liked.

I am catching up on books because of an illness so am going off of what I remember and a few notes I made at the time. My apologies for the brevity.

Wonderful book with lots of drama. Interesting characters. This was a very interesting. Of time in history. Hard to put this book down.

What if you faced losing something very precious? This was a tender novel, set in a time period that never seems to grow old with readers, WWII. I read it avidly to see what would happen. Some parts did drag, but I read it to the end. It’s a decent read.

This book had great potential, but fell flat in its execution. For me, I have a hard time with characters who get walked all over. Gwen, the main character, is one of those. At first, I liked how selfless she was and how determined she was to provide a good life for the abandoned baby she's left with. However, over the course of the novel, I grew really tired of how she let everyone else take advantage of her. I'm giving it three stars due to the great depiction of post-WWII New York City and the reality facing the men and women who survived the war.

This was a good story with a mix of romance and historical fiction. The writing was very atmospheric of NYC and surrounding areas and I felt transported there during the post war era. The story was emotional for me in spots and I love when an author can bring that forth.
Many thanks to Lake Union Publishing and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I really wanted to like this book. It took me forever to finish it and I just didn’t like it. The first half was not so good. I just didn’t enjoy this one at all.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This historical fiction storyline had so much promise but it did not live up to its potential. The story dragged on and I was happy to be finished reading it.

In the height of WWII, a young nurse named Gwen is living in her NYC apartment with a young military wife and her daughter. When the wife decides she can't be a mother anymore she leaves her daughter in Gwen's care. Gwen cares for her as her own and doesn't expect her father to come back from war, until her turns up on her doorstep on VJ Day. What follows is a story of love and loss.

It took me a while to get into this book, and after about half way through I really started to enjoy it. I really thought that there'd be more discussion about WWII, but I did enjoy the discussion about how people got along after the war. How people tried to put the war behind them.

Overall, I thought that this was a good love story that talked not only about romance, but a mothers love and the love between friends as well. Nothing extremely special, but still an ok read.

I really enjoyed this book. I grew to love and root for the characters and adore the time period and descriptions of the characters surroundings. I thought I knew how it was going to end, and then there was a little twist that made the ending a little less predictable.

Luckily it was free! Characters were one dimensional. Plot was slow, then fast like there was a hurry to wrap things up! The story is not only exceedingly monotonous but it is so repetitive in its monotony that I began to skim through the pages just so I could get done with it.