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book I read from this series, changed my perspective of the characters, and most of all, the war, While in Silver Stars, I felt like the characters' family, doing my best to understand what the war was like for Frangie, Rio, and Rainy, but knowing deep down that they were feeling emotions that I couldn't even begin to imagine.
However, in Purple Hearts, I truly felt the confusion and the chaos that ensued on the battle field, The battle at Omaha Beach made my heart pound all the way through, as Rio and Frangie described the bullets constantly raining down on them.
As I read through some of the battles, it was difficult to create a mental picture of what was going on, why things were happening, or what was going to happen next.
It truly gave me a sense of the flurry of action occuring on real battlefields, I finally gained just a fraction of understanding about the fear that they must have felt, rather than just seeing their strength and invincibility.
In addition, seeing battle after battle, and the daily struggles that each soldier had to endure just blew my mind, There was absolutely no end in sight for our heroines and I was constantly amazed at how any character in this series was able to walk away from the war at all.
This book fascinated me with what war is really like today for soldiers, and if they see the same horrific and devastating scenes that Frangie Rio and Rainy experienced.
I devoured this finale in all it's gruesome, barbaric glory, As sick as this may sound, the gruesome details contributed to the pageturning nature of this book, and the entire series, As I mentioned in my review of Silver Stars, the heroins of the Front Lines series are unbelievably easy to root for and fall in love with.
While it was difficult at times to see my favorite girls turn into hardened soldiers, with little regard for the new recruits, it simultaneously made me fall in love with them more, seeing their ability to fend for themselves, and make a name for themselves as soldiers rather than as women.
As I've said about a thousand times in regard to this series, the character development is beyond words, and in addition to the captivating action, is really what made me fall in love with these stories.
Boy, did that middle book have some serious "middle book syndrome", because this one brought me right back in to the fray, I literally didn't want to go to work at one point because, as I told my husband, "I have to get Rio and Frangie off Omaha Beach! It's DDay, dammit.
I can't abandon the girls!" The action moved consistently and pulsepoundingly through this entire brick of a novel what is this thing,pages I forgot to look.
Which is in itself meaningful, I stayed up untila, m. to finish this

because I had to know what happened to the girls, I wanted to go to sleep, but I couldn't just abandon Frangie at the gates of Dachau, could I By the way, none of these are spoilers because seriously, it's a book about WWII: these events are known and OF COURSE our MCs are going to witness all the major events.
They are our lens for viewing the Western front, On that point, I've read and seen a lot of stuff about the US and the Soviets coming upon the camps and liberating them.
This hit the hardest. I've beenpages in these girls' shoes, watching them fight and suffer and survive, So when Rainy, my favorite, comes across a camp filled with her own people, it was like a friend doing so, I wanted to shield her from the atrocities, But my girl didn't need me, trust me, Also, brief aside, the user of Rod Serling's cloaking monologue from the Twilight Zone episode "Deathshead Revisited" made me happy, sad, and terrified simultaneously.
It's a beautifully tragic quote from a nightmare inducing episode, Seriously, people, it's on Netflix, Go watch it if you haven't, I'll wait.

Overall, I think this series was novel in concept, wellresearched, and had easytorelateto main characters with, honestly, just the dumbest names.
Ever. So dumb. It kept pace pretty well, with some lulls in book two, and had a nice conclusion that answered all your questions, I wish it had left some of the romance parts out "there's no googly eyes in here! This is a war room!" but those were luckily few and far between in this book.
One nice takeaway is that I've put this in the hands of at least three male teens who love WWII books and were legitimately interested in how "fighting girls would have changed things", as one put it.
I think a book with kickass female soldiers written by a man is a nice step towards getting boys to read more books with female MCs, which is a huge step towards equality in YA lit.
What if more male authors wrote strong, non manicpixiedreamgirl female protagonists Honestly that seems as farfetched ass America allowing female recruits, . . I felt so many things with the last installment of this trilogy, . . Sadness, nausea, and complete horror, I wept when characters died and the camps were infiltrated, In the end I found joy and happiness to see where these brave women ended up and cried tears of elation, This story will stay with me for a very long time it's such a unique perspective on what could have been, Rio and her troops, Frangie and her healing friends and Rainy and her fierce independence will forever be with me, If you have not read this trilogy what exactly are you waiting for, . . Thank you Mr. Grant! If it was possible to award a book, indeed a series, six then this would have earned them, No holds barred, no glorification of war, well researched and incredible emotive,

Grant's always written good books, but this series has been a step beyond anything else he's done before, Hands down one of the best trilogies I've ever read, I know this sounds like so much hyperbole but check my Goodreads profile for the number of reviews I've written it's not many.
I tend to just give a score and move on, but the Front Lines series deserves your attention,

If I have a criticism, it's that the book finished a little abruptly, . . but the closing chapter or so did sum things up well,

Definitely not for the squeamish or "children", very much emphasis on the "adult" in "young adult", Also not for Holocaust deniers, but most of them are too stupid to read books anyway, This has been an AMAZING JOURNEY!!!! Mr, Grant thank you, thank you for this series!!!
This last book was everything and MORE!!! Thank you for making my Summer Reanding
the best.
I . What can I say How can I put together words to describe this,

The blurb says that this book is a powerful ending to the Front Lines trilogy, The blurb isaccurate. This book and the series is the most powerful book that I have ever read about WWII, I have always rationally understood the devastation and horror of the war, the deaths, and the struggles, But this series truly helped me understand it emotionally, I know that Michael Grant has done his best to make sure that the series is as accurate as possible, which makes the story more scary.
I can not praise Michael Grant enough or rave about this series enough, This is definitely a top ten series,

There are a few things that bothered me but I accept because they are accurate, Michael Grant was more trigger happy in this book which initially made me mad because I didn't understand the point of killing characters we didn't know that well.
On the flip side, I think more characters that we were well acquainted with should have died to drive the point that people die in a war.
Another thing that bothered me was that I was able who was writing the story which I didn't like because I would have preferred it to be a bit of a curveball.
The same goes for the epilogue,

HOWEVER, it doesn't make a difference that I didn't like these things because the book was so "fugging" good, I don't know what to do now I'm getting seriously book hungover,