The Last Correspondent by Soraya M. Lane

 "We have a job to do that no one can really understand, not unless they've walked in our shoes....The desire the show the truth, to see everything with our own eyes and try to write words that convey the action as well as the emotion. It consumes us."           -Michael Miller, from the novel

This is the third novel, in a row, I have read with women facing great danger! The first was American Dirt with a Mexican mother trying to get to the US to save her young son. Then I read The Four Winds in which another mother is trying to get her children to California, seen as the Promised Land by many escaping the Dust Bowl. The Last Correspondent is an historical fiction of WWII involving journalists in war-torn France.

The reader becomes acquainted with 3 women: Ella Franks, who loses her job with United Press when they discover she has been writing under a male pseudonym; Danni Bradford, a veteran photojournalist working with her partner Andy in Europe, both aspiring to get to Normandy; and Chloe, Andy's sister, a rather naïve former model in London who is desperate to find her Parisian lover from before the German occupation.

We learn each woman's story and then, one by one, they come together and eventually must rely on each other for survival. The plot kept my interest with the suspense, romance and even a bit of humor here and there. I admired the women, especially Danni and Ella, who were very passionate about their work as war correspondents and very brave and resilient. The romance(s) was somewhat predictable, I thought, but it was a welcome contrast to the horrors of war being witnessed by the characters.

I rate this novel a 4. I think I need to find some light reading now!