Series: Soldier Girls
Publisher: Electric Monkey
Format: Paperback
Pages: 459 Pages
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Received from NetGalley for an honest review (I managed to be able to buy a paperback copy from my local bookstore before release so reading that)*
Goodreads Blurb
It's 1944, and it feels to everyone like the war will never end. Rio Richlin, Frangie Marr and Rainie Shulterman have all received accolades, been 'heroes', earned promotion - in short, they've all done 'enough' to allow them to leave this nightmare and go home. But they don't.D-Day, June 6th 1944. On that day, many still doubted the American soldier.
By June 7th no one did.
Thoughts
(BEWARE SPOILERS MAY BE AHEAD)This is the finale in the Solider Girls trilogy (following Front Lines, and Silver Stars) , and follows Rio, Frangie, and Rainy, through WW2 and their deployment to Europe (particularly, Omaha Beach, Hurtgen, and the Battle of the Bulge).
With finale books you always worry that they aren't going to deliver, and it isn't going to be wrapped up as well as you hope, but this one is brilliant. You follow the characters through their experiences of war through Omaha Beach, to the discovery of the death camps at Dachau, and Buchenwald.
The story is written so beautifully, and you really feel for these characters and hope that they are going to make it through to the end. I also found myself crying in places, as you really become invested in the story, and know we are coming to the end.
As with the other two novels, this was just so hard to pick a favourite character, I loved them all equally, and yes I am still on the Rio and Jack ship.
I will admit that I really did not like Strand in this book, he was such a A**E, how he wanted RIO to be when the war was over, and how he felt belittle because she had saved him in the previous book.
Overall a great ending to the trilogy, and one I think should be read, as I never knew anything about the atrocity at Oradour-sur-Glane.
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