For the first time they leave behind their homes and familiesâ?to go to war. Each has her own reasons for volunteering: Rio fights to honor her sister Frangie needs money for her family Rainy wants to kill Germans. Rio Richlin, Frangie Marr, and Rainy Schulterman are average girls, girls with dreams and aspirations, at the start of their lives, at the start of their loves. The unproven American army is going up against the greatest fighting force ever assembled, the armed forces of Nazi Germany. A court decision makes women subject to the draft and eligible for service. I think this really summed up how we don’t, and cannot really, understand what fighting in the second world war would have been like and how it changes someone.An epic, genre-bending, and transformative new series that reimagines World War II with female soldiers fighting on the front lines. The story is narrated by another woman in a military hospital, assumedly after the war, who constantly addresses the reader as “gentle reader”. Front Lines shows how women can be just as strong as men, even if that can sometimes be in other ways.
The characters are completely different but linked in many ways, which makes each of the different story lines really interesting and gripping.
The timeline within the book is quite long, which also allows you to see how each person changes because of their experiences. As many of the words and phrases said to the characters sound very similar to phrases women hear in everyday life.įollowing each character made the battles seem suddenly very personal, as you didn’t see the bigger picture but only what each individual soldier had to go through. It makes you reflect on how women are still treated unfairly within society today.
I thought the whole concept behind Front Lines was brilliant.
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