These Long Shadows by Jennifer Mistmorgan Review

I loved These Long Shadows by Jennifer Mistmorgan, the third book in the On Victory's Wings series. 

This book focuses on Katie and Jonty, a couple who married for convenience after Katie finds herself pregnant out of wedlock. This book takes place toward the end of WW2, after the Germans have been defeated, but Japan has not. 

The book begins with a short prologue where Jonty offers to marry Katie, but then skips two years into the future where Jonty is being demobilized and coming back home to Katie, even though at sometime in the past she had had wanted nothing more to do with him. We learn more about the time between his proposal and his homecoming though flashbacks in the story. Along with what happened to him to cause nightmares that have him calling out the name of another woman in his sleep. 

Katie and Jonty's relationship was definitely on rocky ground and they had a lot to work though, but the reader can tell that Jonty truly loves Katie even though she would prefer to keep him at arms length, or further. 

Making the relationship even more tricky is Katie's friendship with Jan, a man who has been there for her because he is related to her family's next door neighbor. However, after some suspicious actions, Jan suddenly ends up missing. 

There's intrigue and mystery, though not really any suspense (not that I was expecting there to be). The book focuses mostly on the relationships between Katie and Jonty, between Katie and her family and friends, between Jonty and his uncle. It's also a book about lives getting back to normal after the war and struggles they faced.

I love these relationships and getting to see characters from the previous books with updates on their lives now. 

And the author added in some interesting twists I didn't see coming. The author did a wonderful job of bringing these characters to life and making me care about them. There were definitely some tears shed and I was rooting for Katie and Jonty to work through their problems and make their marriage work. 

In case it is a concern to some there are mentions of baby loss, infertility, affairs, and mentions of an attack on a family by the Nazis. 

I received an e-copy of this book as a member of the launch team and was not required to write a favorable review. These are my own honest thoughts.