A review by msbarnesela
The Excitements by CJ Wray

adventurous emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

I rarely enjoy WW2-related fiction (because it’s just over-saturated as a genre and usually excessively sentimental). However, this is less a WW2 book and more a quirky-old-person book with spy and heist elements. I like books about old people. This one was excellently done. 
I did predict the twist ending (

Josephine’s Scottish trauma is that she was told that her baby with August, born out of wedlock, had died, but really he had been registered as the son of her BFF, Connie, and adopted to a Canadian couple, and they are reconnected at the end

) pretty early on. But I liked the characters enough that by the end, I didn’t mind that it was predictable. I wanted good things for all of them.