Thanks to Netgalley and Random House-Ballantine Books for a free digital copy for my review.
by: Jennifer Ryan
rating: loved
This book hooked me from the very start. A premise that includes a wartime rations cooking competition? Sign me up! But this book is about so much more than competition. It is about 4 women, an orphan, a widowed mother, a society wife, and a chef who is also an unwed mother. Each of them are figuring out who they are and who they want to be in the midst of the war. This is a book about female independence, friendship, and survival. I loved how each of the characters developed over the book and how attached you become to each of them.
Bonus: the book includes the wartime recipes for some of the foods mentioned. It's hard to imagine a time when ingredients were so hard to come by when I lived within walking distance of a handful of grocery stores.
Content Warning: domestic violence, racism, death
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