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Unexploded

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 Unexploded By   Alison MacLeod My Rating: 3 Genre: Historical Fiction, War Finished on: 10th Nov, 2020 I have rated it 3/5. Now, why am I giving it a 3? Let me try to give a reasonable explanation here. Usually when I rate any book 3, it's either because the plot wasn't good, or this book didn't get enough attention from my side for me to finish this book in few sittings. So was it the former or latter? It was.. kinda both :| Usually when I take time to 'read' a book, I totally blame myself because maybe it's me who has to get 'used' to such writing, and for most part of reading, this was true. But later I'm not sure even the plot took a different turn, and it got me wondering.. yes, this indeed does deserve a 3. So there's this Beaumont family. Evelyn, Geoffrey and Phillip. The war has started, and Geoffrey becomes superintendent of the enemy alien camp. Geoffrey is prepared for everything, he even lets Evelyn know that he may have to leave the...