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The Spider and The Sparrow + $25 Gift Card Giveaway

February 16, 2016 by The Things I Love Most

I love history, but I am not a history buff at all, especially war history. In fact, I don’t really even remember learning about them in high school.  I know, sad right, I should have loved history then, but I don’t remember any of it. Now that I am teaching it to my own children I am fascinated and love to study and learn more about history.  I have found one of my favorite ways to learn more about what happened in history is through great literature.  I was excited to be able to read and review this book The Spider and The Sparrow by A.L. Soward.  
 
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This novel is set during WWI  in France and Germany.  It follows three people and shares their stories and how they are interwoven.  I love that I don’t have to read a boring history book to learn about some very important events that happened during WWI.  I love that I can let my daughter read this and know that she is learning great things from it, while also enjoying a good novel.  Reading this book made me feel like I was actually there, which during some parts of the book were hard to think about.  To realized that those terrible things happened to people, and how ugly war is. She did a great job not making it to gruesome though.  A.L. did a wonderful job showing the depth of the characters. I felt like got to know them and like I was with them on their journey though this war. I was very impressed with the amazing descriptive details she used to help us understand what it was really like during that time period.  I would for sure recommend this book to any historical fiction lover.  

The Spider and The Sparrow by A.L. Sowards

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May 1915. After tragedy strikes during the Second Battle of Artois, Frenchman Julian Olivier will do anything to get out of the trenches. So when British Intelligence recruits him to spy behind enemy lines, he jumps at the opportunity. Just before he begins, however, he has a chance encounter with a young French woman who leaves his heart marked for the remainder of the war—even if he doesn’t know her name.Warren Flynn is a Canadian airborne hero, and dogfights with the Germans are all in a day’s work. Second only to his love of flying is his fascination with Claire Donovan, the daughter of an American munitions manufacturer living in Paris. Warren flies Julian into Germany and soon receives orders to post the Allies newest operative—an attractive peasant woman named Evette in Claire’s home. As a dangerous ring of spies and saboteurs threatens to turn the war against the Allies, Julian discovers goodness in his enemies’ hearts. But even if he survives, will he ever be reunited with the woman whose memory he can’t erase? Will Warren survive the war, and will Evette unearth the infiltrator in her own territory before it’s too late?

About the author…
 
A.L. Sowards grew up in Moses Lake, Washington, then came to Utah to attend BYU and ended up staying. Now she’s a busy mom with young kids, but she does her best to squeeze writing time in between naptime, stroller rides, and homework sessions. She enjoys reading, writing, learning about history, and eating chocolate, sometimes all at once. As an author, she is known for heart-pounding action, memorable characters, careful historical research, clean romance, and family-friendly language. Several of her novels have been Whitney Award finalists in the historical fiction category. For more information, please visit her website, ALSowards.com
 
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Here is a line up of other reviewers.. 
Feb. 15th: http://www.singinglibrarianbooks.com/index.html, http://ldswritermom.blogspot.com/, https://joyinthemoments.wordpress.com/
Feb. 16th: http://ldsandlovinit.blogspot.com/, http://www.littlelightdesigncollective.com/, http://thethingsilovemost.com/ 
Feb. 17th: http://www.wishfulendings.com/, http://mybookaday.blogspot.com/
Feb. 18th: http://katiescleanbookcollection.blogspot.com/, http://melsshelves.blogspot.com/, http://lisaisabookworm.blogspot.com/
Feb. 19th: vhttp://gettingyourreadonaimeebrown.blogspot.com/, http://literarytimeout.blogspot.com/, http://seekingwithallyurheart.blogspot.com/, http://www.rockinbookreviews.com/ 

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