Front Lines- Michael Grant
Front Lines- review Michael Grant Rating: 5/5 The short version: It’s a challenging project, but Grant follows it through wholeheartedly, and it pays off. This review contains spoilers. It also mentions racist language and behaviour and (feared) sexual assault. Only a very, very brave author would take on such a huge challenge as writing an alternative history of WWII. In fact, there are only a few authors who I’d trust enough to read if they did it. Michael Grant is one of those authors. His Gone series is still compelling even though I’ve read it quite a few times, and his balance of strong character development, exciting action sequences and emotional heart makes a perfect combination in Front Lines. The concept of the books is exciting. It’s the story of the WWII we know, but with a difference: girls are in active service, too. It opens with a foreword from a mystery narrator and goes on to tell the tales of three girls (Rio, Frangie and Rainy) as they b...