SuitabookFront Lines
Michael Grant
- Reading
- Try reading together at first, pausing to check in after scenes involving combat or suffering. You could then discuss how each protagonist responds to the demands of service.
- Themes
- Women and military service: A court decision makes women subject to the draft and eligible for service, and three girls volunteer. The premise centres on changed expectations about who may be called to fight, but the novel’s evaluation of that change is unclear.
- War and its human cost: The three protagonists are drawn into combat during an alternate version of the Second World War. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- Consider whether that level of conflict suits your reader.