By Kelly Bridgewater
Generations of secrets unfold as a young
college student learns the truth about her great-grandmother’s World War II
heartbreak and love.
Brianna Hastings’s life seems dull and full of
disappointment until a handsome young man visits her church. She’s instantly
smitten by the charming Greg, who leads an exciting, independent life—the kind
of life she longs for. But when a college history assignment forces Brianna to
interview her great-grandmother about life during World War II, she can’t
believe it when Daisy presses her with questions about Greg’s character. “What
sort of man is he? Who is he at his core?”
What could her great-grandmother possibly know
about love at first sight?
The questions take both women back to Boise,
Idaho, in the early 1940s, when war emphasized how fragile life could be. Daisy
and her older sister pine for the same handsome bomber pilot—until one night of
terrible judgment reveals their true characters and drives them apart. Trying
to protect the people she loves the most, Daisy condemns herself to live a lie.
In the years that follow, as Daisy grapples
with the consequences, she receives unexpected grace from a man she’s known her
whole life but never looked at twice. Could what she learned about love save
Brianna from heartache three generations later?
My
Thoughts:
I’ll
Be Seeing You by Robin Lee Hatcher is a
time-slip novel between World War II and the present day, which is why I was
interested in reading this story. I love World War II novels. While the writing
was fabulous, I had a little bit of issue with the plot. This story was 100%
predictable. 100% been done before. Nothing original. I have read a number of
stories where the same incident that happened to Daisy, the heroine from the
past timeline, have occurred to a number of different people. Nothing new
there. Whereas, the present-day story is a tale of protecting your heart just a
mirror image of the World War II story. Also, a
repetitive storyline that has been written a number of times. While these glaring
issues stood out to me, I enjoyed Hatcher’s ability to write a captivity story
that did keep my attention as I sped through the story. Overall, I’ll Be Seeing You by Robin Lee Hatcher
is a feel-good story about protecting your heart and being careful with it, but
the plot was not original and has been written a number of times over.
I received a complimentary copy of I’ll Be Seeing You by Robin Lee Hatcher
from Thomas Nelson Publishing, but the opinions stated are all my own.
My
Rating:
3 out of 5 stars
Purchase I’ll Be Seeing You
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