Review: Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls by Ellie Curzon

 Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls is book four in the A Village at War series by Ellie Curzon.

This series is set in the small English farming village of Bramble Heath and features how the war spreads it's destructive web into small country villages.

Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls is told through the point of view of Lottie, one of the land girls. Lottie's sister Martha was killed by a German bomb in book 3, The Wartime Vet.

In Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls we see a lot of upheaval in the small village as hate for the Germans starts to spread through the villagers. A German plane crash lands and the pilot is missing. Lottie is out for revenge for her sister's death and the village bands together to find and lynch the missing pilot.

Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls is a thought provoking story, raising questions of the treatment of prisoners of war and respect for the fallen - whichever side they fight on.

As with The Wartime Vet I found the story quite repetitive and the advantage - or disadvantage- of reading on a kindle is I can see how many times something is mentioned. Martha and her death was brought up 121 times!

I loved that there were appearances of characters from the previous book.

Wartime Wishes for the Land Girls has plenty of drama and also heartwarming moments. Even during wartime people fall in love.

The twist took me by surprise. I seriously didn't see that coming!

The day to day life of a small village during the war and the work of the land girls always intrigues me and these were well portrayed.

My rating 3 / 5 ⭐⭐⭐

Publisher: Bookouture

Publication date: 3rd September 2024

Genre: Historical Fiction

Pages: 352

Source: Ecopy courtesy of the publisher via Netgalley

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