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A review by eulsie
While You Were Mine by Ann Howard Creel
2.0
Y’all know that famous picture of that sailor kissing a nurse in the middle of the street during the end of WWII celebrations? So imagine what kind of life she led, who was was, and what happened to her after that camera snapped that photo. That’s basically what this book is about (fictional though it is). What if the girl in that photo had a cool story?
IM SO SAD. THE POTENTIAL WASTED... and it wasn’t the writing or the plot. It was Gwen, the main character, that bothered me the most. While she had a lot dumped on her plate, she was so whiny and repetitive that I grew to really be sick of her. If the she were more developed and deep, and not so flat and one dimensional, this book would’ve been so good.
John, her love interest and former POW in Europe, didn’t move me at all! For someone with ptsd, a new daughter, and a wife that left him, he has a lot to deal with that’s more important than Gwen being a pain in the rear. I wanted to like him, but he was just as flat as Gwen!
I love WWII era stories, and I will give some credit where it’s due— I thought the setting was well written. I liked Dot, Gwen’s friend. And the audiobook narrator was great. But that’s about where the pros end and a long list of cons start.
Ugh, that was disappointing, but hopefully I’ll read a great book next that’ll make up for it.
IM SO SAD. THE POTENTIAL WASTED... and it wasn’t the writing or the plot. It was Gwen, the main character, that bothered me the most. While she had a lot dumped on her plate, she was so whiny and repetitive that I grew to really be sick of her. If the she were more developed and deep, and not so flat and one dimensional, this book would’ve been so good.
John, her love interest and former POW in Europe, didn’t move me at all! For someone with ptsd, a new daughter, and a wife that left him, he has a lot to deal with that’s more important than Gwen being a pain in the rear. I wanted to like him, but he was just as flat as Gwen!
I love WWII era stories, and I will give some credit where it’s due— I thought the setting was well written. I liked Dot, Gwen’s friend. And the audiobook narrator was great. But that’s about where the pros end and a long list of cons start.
Ugh, that was disappointing, but hopefully I’ll read a great book next that’ll make up for it.