So great to get back to Russ and Claire, though it's been long enough that I didn't quite remember the villains and events of prior books. Spencer-Fleming did a good job reminding me, however, and I liked seeing how everything resolved. I don't know about having events revolve around vets returnin...
Maybe 3.5 stars. If you've gotten this far in the series, you must really love pain. But it's worth it if only for these words: "Holding on." "Not letting go."
When I got assigned to read One Was a Soldier for review, I was absolutely beside myself. I loved the previous books in the series, but I hadn't been reading them critically for review. What if this one didn't measure up? What if I drove myself insane trying to analyze it? Well, I have news for ever...
This is one of the best series out there right now and this one was worth the wait! Clare & Russ are such vivid characters and this book advances them along nicely...........with the last sentence being a showstopper!
Julia Spencer-Fleming's latest in the Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne series starts off in a difficult place: a veteran's therapy group. Among the members? Rev. Clare Fergusson, newly returned from a tour of duty as a helicopter pilot in Iraq. The first half of the book deals with veterans' rei...