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Bezig met laden... Olive Bright, pigeoneer (editie 2021)door Stephanie Graves
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I really did love this book! It was honestly the perfect pick me up after what has been a really challenging year. I really enjoy village life dramas and murder mysteries and this was a really good combination of both. My husband and I enjoyed reading this out loud to one another. I will say though that there were times when the narrative got a bit distracted, I think there were just one to many things going on. Like perhaps the village play could have gotten less air time than it did for example, It didn't really add a tone to the story and just served as a distraction, same as the pig club. There were times where I felt the author was just tacking on too many things and the main plot lines were getting lost. I do wish also that there was more focus spent on solving the mystery of Miss Hustlbee's murder, it felt very back and forth on that. One minute Olive would be focused on that and the other times she would say she wasn't and would be on to other things. Overall though, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would be interested in seeing more from Stephanie Graves in this style. Great Book I haven’t completely finished this book yet because I have been really busy lately, but so far this book is pretty great. I love the characters and the story and literally everything. It was a little slow at first but most books are like that for me and it quickly got better and that’s what matters. This is the first historical fiction book I’ve read in a long long time and let me say that I was not disappointed by this book. It makes me want to read more! Stephanie Graves did an amazing job writing this book and getting the period right. World War II is one of my favorite time periods to read and reading from this perspective was pretty interesting. I loved the carrier pigeons and the murder mystery too. At first J didn’t know how it was going to go, trying to balance all the very different aspects of this story but in the end it turned out pretty good. While a little boring at times, this book was pretty great overall. This book is the perfect cozy historical mystery. I’m excited to read the rest of the series and hoping to see more of Olive and Captain Aldridge - though this book can stand alone. In small-town Britain, twenty-something Olive Bright is struggling to keep her pigeon loft going and find her place in the war effort. When she’s offered the chance to supply pigeons for a top secret agency, she jumps at the chance, despite the fact that she will have to lie to her own family about it. She challenges her liaison, the handsome Captain Aldridge, at every turn, fighting for a larger part in the secret missions. And when the village busybody turns up dead after eating a mysterious cake at the town dance, Olive is determined to follow up on every clue. I loved the heroine, Olive. She’s feisty, fearless and addicted to Agatha Christie mysteries. Her snappy dialogue with Captain Aldridge kept making me smile. The setting is perfect. It captures that small town feel where people think they know everything about everyone, but deep, dark secrets still manage to be hidden. And everyone in this town seems to have some sort of secret - with some being deadlier than others! I’m definitely reading the next one to see what mystery Olive may tackle next! Thank you to BookishFirst and the publisher for the advance review copy of this book. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I would classify it as historical fiction with a touch of mystery because, while there was a murder to solve, the main focus was on the characters and on everyday wartime life in their village. The murder didn't occur until about a third of the way through the novel, so when it did happen the reader had already had the opportunity to see the suspects and their possible motives. That combined with the focus on the characters and on their everyday life gave me the same comfortable feeling as watching one of my favorite shows, Foyle's War. As for the main character, I found Olive easy to root for with her determination to do her bit despite her certainty that she could never live up to her mother's record. I liked that her feistiness and curiosity were combined with a kind heart, and I loved her relationship with her step-mother and step-brother(Also, I found both of those characters endearing). It was interesting to read about the pigeons. My respect for them and what they did definitely grew while reading this. I got the impression that this will be the first in a series. I hope so because I would love to read more about Olive and her adventures. Thank you to BookishFirst for this early read. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Though war rages across mainland Europe and London is strafed by German aircraft, the little village of Pipley in Hertfordshire bustles along much as it always has. Adrift since her best friend, George, joined the Royal Air Force, twenty-two-year-old Olive Bright fills her days by helping at her father's veterinary practice and tending to her beloved racing pigeons. Desperate to do her bit, Olive hopes that the National Pigeon Service will enlist Bright Lofts' expertise, and use their highly trained birds to deliver critical, coded messages for His Majesty's Forces. The strangers who arrive in Pipley are not from the NPS. Instead, Jameson Aldridge and his associate are tied to a covert British intelligence organization known as Baker Street. If Olive wants her pigeons to help the war effort, she must do so in complete secrecy. Tired of living vicariously through the characters of her beloved Agatha Christie novels, Olive readily agrees. But in the midst of her subterfuge, the village of Pipley is dealing with another mystery. Local busybody Miss Husselbee is found dead outside Olive's pigeon loft. Is the murder tied to Olive's new assignment? Or did Miss Husselbee finally succeed in ferreting out a secret shameful enough to kill for? With the gruff, handsome Jameson as an unlikely ally, Olive intends to find out - but homing in on a murderer can be a deadly business."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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