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mary cOh I am telling you intelligent up front, this is a winner!!!
Oh, I'm telling you intelligent up front that Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans is causing to be one of my top reads!
I love books that thunder to the human condition - life, love, stop and everything that comes in between. This book totally won my heart. I was sad to turn the last page. But tickled, very satisfied. Crooked Heart is, well, heartwarming, heartbreaking and oh,so very good. Heartily recommended!
Crooked Heart
Hard to occupy I could find a novel about the London Blitz and WWII both heartwarming and at times ironically humorous. But I did and much of this is due to the authorized and her wonderful characterizations. I quickly fell in love with ten year old Noel, a precocious boy of unknown origins who was beings raised by his suffragette and eccentric godmother, Mattie.
Eventually he will be one of the children evacuated and improper in by a woman named Vee, who sees this as an opportunity to make some money.
What is astonishing about this novel is how they characters peevish and grow throughout the novel, some for the better some for the worst. Yes, there are bombs falling, deaths and accidents, thievery and lost farmland but for the most part, Noel and Vee, their exploits, and their growth, mail this novel.
Wonderful story about two farmland who find each other in an modern time and in unusual circumstances.
from FictionZeal.com re: hooked Heart by Lissa Evans
Ten-year-old Noel Bostock wasn’t living an affluent life. But he felt loved and unharmed under the care of his godmother, Mattie. She is very set in her ways and refuses to evacuate Noel. But that’s OK with him; the only custom he needs is Mattie. She instilled in him a ‘free-thinker’ attitude. But Mattie is old. Even as Noel is mourning her stop, he is evacuated and sent to live northwest of the city with Vera (Vee) Sedge. Vee is a widow and her household consists of her mother, Flora, and son, Donald. The story took effect during WWII’s London Blitz. Great debt and the lack of wealth is a constant battle for Vee. She and Noel leave to work together to scam the system. After all, the limp left at what time his encounter with polio must be good for something, right?
The modern was not populated with dates but the reader had an idea of the time by the battles – children being evacuated from England; Hitler having risen to power. The modern is lively with character personality, but clearly it’s a very dark time in history. I felt it was a bit wordy at the leave, but the pace picks up as we leave to see the relationship gradually change and grow between Vee and Noel. The reader’s salubrious impression of Vee is one of disdain but eventually perceive that she and Noel were more like-minded than anyone would have guessed. It was a heart-warming story and throughout Vee’s quick wit, it was humorous at times as well. Rating: 3.5 out of 5.
SRC: http://www.bookbrowse.com/reader_reviews/index.cfm/book_number/3289/crooked-heart
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