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Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig
3.0
A group of scholarship women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I.
Kate is a scholarship girl from Brooklyn and reluctantly agrees to go to France with the Smith College Relief Unit and her best friend Emmeline.
Four months later, Kate and seventeen other women are in France. They are armed with everything they need, but things aren’t what they imagined.
With Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith women band together and survive?
I listened to this one on audiobook after receiving the physical book in my Once Upon a Book Club advent calendar. I was really excited for this as I love WW1 and WW2 history so couldn’t wait to get started. I enjoyed getting to know the characters, but this one was purely character focused. I tend to enjoy historical fiction books that focus a little more on history and a little less on the characters. I didn’t really get to learn much from this book, and that is always a goal of mine when listening to historical fiction. I did enjoy the deep dive into the different characters, though at times it felt that there were too many. I guess while I didn’t mind this one, it just wasn’t a book that wowed me, and I felt that it was tedious to get through as it was so long. I wish that I would have cared more about this and not been so bored because it was based on a true story.
Kate is a scholarship girl from Brooklyn and reluctantly agrees to go to France with the Smith College Relief Unit and her best friend Emmeline.
Four months later, Kate and seventeen other women are in France. They are armed with everything they need, but things aren’t what they imagined.
With Germans threatening to break through the lines, can the Smith women band together and survive?
I listened to this one on audiobook after receiving the physical book in my Once Upon a Book Club advent calendar. I was really excited for this as I love WW1 and WW2 history so couldn’t wait to get started. I enjoyed getting to know the characters, but this one was purely character focused. I tend to enjoy historical fiction books that focus a little more on history and a little less on the characters. I didn’t really get to learn much from this book, and that is always a goal of mine when listening to historical fiction. I did enjoy the deep dive into the different characters, though at times it felt that there were too many. I guess while I didn’t mind this one, it just wasn’t a book that wowed me, and I felt that it was tedious to get through as it was so long. I wish that I would have cared more about this and not been so bored because it was based on a true story.