Second book in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. It has been a year since reading and loving the first book. This installment was ok. It kept my attention and I was intrigued but it didn't have the same grip on me that the first book did.
The whole book was a very slow read and it took me a week to get through it. I wanted to pick it up and read it, I just didn't because of how slow it was. I started questioning my memory of if the first book was slow and if I listened to it on audio. I thought about getting the audio book for this but I pushed through.
I was not confused about any of the returning characters and I was not satisfied with the one scene of her visit to her love Simon. In both books, Maisie has contemplated finally letting go of Simon and not visiting him as much to try to move on in her life. We also did not get any of her backgroud or much of her childhood in this book.
The great war was a plot point because Maisie's client lost a son in the war and most of his workforce. He has hired Maisie to bring his daughter back home. While Maisie is looking for her, she makes connections to some recent murders and she learns that the women along with Charlotte were part of a horrible group that formed during the first world war.
The group was known as the order of the white feather. This group was full of women who handed out white feathers to men who were not in uniform in public to shame them for not fighting for their country. I actually had to look this up because I could not believe that this sort of thing existed but it did exist.
I am hoping to get to the third book sooner rather than later, because I am invested in Maisie Dobbs life and the fact that the author just completed this series this year makes me want to know what Maisie gets up to.
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