Maya Patel's Reviews > Home Front Girls

‘Home Front Girls’, previously published as ‘I’ll Be Seeing You’ by @lorettanyhan and @suzannepalmieri1313 is just the story you need that is less about the war but more about a blossoming and sacred friendship between two strangers with nothing in common except that the men they both love are on the battlefield.

I’ve read so many books in the last few months with very unlikeable characters (even though the story was good) but ‘Home Front Girls’ makes you love almost everyone in the novel in their own way. Several times throughout this book, I found myself laughing, crying and angry with them.

The most important aspect of this book is the strong, kind and eternal friendship between two women that begins with a correspondence. Their friendship is connected by countless letters to each other which helps them overcome the dreadful thoughts of the war and the aching loneliness without their loved ones. It’s also a reminder that no matter what you’re going through, you can always find someone to lean on. Each letter (the whole book are letters) that they send to one another only makes their bond stronger and stronger to the point that they can share everything and anything no matter how happy the news is or how shameful.

I loved this book a lot! I just wished there was more to some of the other characters in the novel, they really deserved more development.

This summer I plan to read more historical fiction and I’m so glad that this is my second book yet!

PS food was rationed during the WWII and people found creative ways to cook tasteful recipes with what was available to them and throughout this book, you’ll find several recipes exchanged between the two pen pals!