Book Review: The Lines Between Us by Amy Lynn Green

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What is this book about?

Since the attack on Pearl Harbor, Gordon Hooper and his buddy Jack Armitage have stuck to their values as conscientious objectors. Much to their families’ and country’s chagrin, they volunteer as smokejumpers rather than enlisting, parachuting into and extinguishing raging wildfires in Oregon. But the number of winter blazes they’re called to seems suspiciously high, and when an accident leaves Jack badly injured, Gordon realizes the facts don’t add up.

A member of the Women’s Army Corps, Dorie Armitage has long been ashamed of her brother’s pacifism, but she’s shocked by news of his accident. Determined to find out why he was harmed, she arrives at the national forest under the guise of conducting an army report . . . and finds herself forced to work with Gordon. He believes it’s wrong to lie; she’s willing to do whatever it takes for justice to be done. As they search for clues, Gordon and Dorie must wrestle with their convictions about war and peace and decide what to do with the troubling secrets they discover.

My review:

The history shown in this story was something that I didn’t know much about and I found it very interesting. Even though the book is listed as ‘historical’, the hint of romance at the beginning threw me off and I kept expecting it to pop back up later, which it didn’t. While I had a lot of trouble warming up to Dorie who was almost too spunky and patriotic, I did like the interesting bunch of smokejumpers. The second half of the book had me turning pages to find out what happened to Jack.

What I enjoyed most about this book:

Page turning second half

What I didn’t like about this book:

Trouble warming up to Dorie