Review: This author makes me feel what she writes.... 4.5 stars
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2012
This is the second book by Margaret Tanner I review but I've read more of her stories.I love this author firstly because her books are set in Australia, a country that I love. Secondly this time period for a book set in Australia is unusual.Thirdly she makes me feel the story and this is what counts in the end."Lauren's Dilemma" is not her best well written book because some parts I find a bit rushed and not well developed but still it's so heart-wrenching.I've shed real tears for Danny, Dick and Blair. Strange to say but in their own way each of them has win me over. Daniel's death due to his reckless and impulsive behavior to avenge his friend's killing...The exchange of letters between Blair and Lauren, Blair's desire to have some form of comfort while at the front since his uncaring fianceé was too busy taking the high society by sotrm...and Dick, his sad story, when he tells Lauren what happend to him, well, I wanted to kill that monstrous soldier.I really feel their pain.Strange to say but the love story between Blair and Lauren was not what has kept me hooked, it was the pains the characters suffer and how they overcome or don't the atrocities of war.The romantic side was not well developed, it was not bad, this has to be clear, but I felt some passages missing and others a bit too rushed.However until now I've appreciated and enjoyed all I've read by this author.