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Blitz: 3 (Rook Files)

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It was there in the films we watched, in the comics my brothers read, and in my vague understanding of what it meant to be British.

One night, Pamela flies off and downs a German bomber, violating one of the Checquy's oldest rules: don't get involved in non-supernatural events. Daniel O'Malley has done it again, writing new stories about the Checquy and its members, this time telling two stories-- one during World War Two about two apprentices who share a secret, and one during contemporary times about a librarian whose life is upended when her power manifests in her 30s.

Recruited by the Checquy and trained in a hidden island academy, she is sent into the field, where she herself becomes wanted for murder based on brandinglike effects on the victims. His first novel, The Rook (novel), was released in 2012 and was a winner of the 2012 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Contains one of the best fight scenes (there are curtains involved), and some truly demented superpowers.

While both of the interconnected plots were interesting it's really the bizarre asides that I love best. Lasting eight months, the Blitz was the form of warfare that had been predicted throughout the 1930s, and that the British people had feared since Neville Chamberlain's declaration that Britain was at war. British historian Juliet Gardiner presents a masterful, engrossing and detailed discussion of the Blitz of World War II as it affected London and other major industrial cities of the UK.

Perhaps in achieving that some subtlety has to be sacrificed, but, hey, you don't read a political thriller to study the philosophical problems of governing nations! I think I might have enjoyed it more if I had thought about this as an entirely new entry in the same universe rather than a third book in the series.

During the London Blitz, Bridget and Usha are apprentices to Lady Carmichael, one of the heads of the Chequy. There are other books available on the subject, indeed you can read about the blitz in many general books about the Second World War, but I doubt whether a more readably detailed volume has been published about it.The race to miniaturise RDF sets for airborne interception, once realised, would have devastating consequences for intruding bomber crews facing A. While I wish we saw more of Myfanwy Thomas, I understand why she did not feature heavily in this book. I’ve always been drawn to these sorts of overlooked stories from history, which are, not coincidentally, often women’s stories. These and other subjects that affected people's experiences and attitudes during the blitz - people incidentally from both ends of the social scale - are comprehensively reported in a book that can only raise admiration in the reader for the poor souls that lived through it, determined not to be beaten, and also for an author who has so informatively written about it. When Usha, Bridget, and a Pawn encounter a Nazi bomber in the air, the Pawn breaks all the rules of the Chequy and knocks it out of the sky.

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