With Every Letter

With Every Letter
Sarah Sundin
Revell Publishing
September 2012
Fiction, Historical, Romance

Lt. Mellie Blake is a nurse serving in the 802nd Medical Squadron, Air Evacuation, Transport. As part of a morale building program, she reluctantly enters into an anonymous correspondence with Lt. Tom MacGilliver, an officer in the 908th Engineer Aviation Battalion in North Africa.

 As their letters crisscross the Atlantic, Tom and Mellie develop a unique friendship despite not knowing the other's true identity. When both are transferred to Algeria, the two are poised to meet face to face for the first time. Will they overcome their fears and reveal who they are, or will their future be held hostage to their past? And can they learn to trust God and embrace the gift of love he offers them?

Combining excellent research and attention to detail with a flair for romance, Sarah Sundin brings to life the perilous challenges of WWII aviation, nursing, and true love.

I have read Sundin before and have enjoyed her books. She writes with heart and I have always appreciated how she handles historical matter. In this book she spent the first half of the book setting the story up and going a bit overboard with details. We all knew Mellie would end up overseas, it just took her awhile to get there.

In general I found the characters in this book to be laughable, I seriously did laugh out loud a couple times. Mellie and Tom are written as extremely immature, almost simple, people. I kept thinking they didn't need each other they needed some serious counseling to deal with their issues. The writing is very elementary, I kept checking to see if I was reading a young adult book. To say the storyline was contrived would be putting it mildly. I usually can see past that if the characters save it, in this case they did not. The story in general was a good idea but the way it was written did not do the story line justice.

I'm sorry to say I was extremely disappointed in this book and will not be looking to read the next one in the series.


My thanks to Revell Publishing for providing me with a free copy of this book in exchange for my review.