Codes of Courage

by A.L. Sowards

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152442403X
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Covenant Communications
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A realistic World War II tale.

"...Helping him was also a way of following her father’s example. He always said he couldn’t fix everything, but if God put a person in his path who needed help, he’d be a rather poor Christian if he didn’t at least try to offer aid." Things I liked: Millie and her family. They were a pretty good bunch of people, and made the chapters focusing on them fun to read. Carl and his mentor Captain Blake. They both were good strong male characters with a devotion to duty and a love for the sea despite the dangers, that was admirable. The code breaking and other secret war work that was done in the book. Very cool! The perspective of a character from the enemy side working in a German U-boat. This was well written and made the story much more deep as his character develops. Negative content- Language- hell is misused once. A mention of a sailor reading horror tales and liking to read "Dracula". One character asks a woman (of good character) if she was the "broad" that someone had been talking about. There's many casualties due to the war going on, and part of the time bodies are described as having parts blown or burned off and missing, as well as some blood. Not gory per se, but realistic. There's an awkward scene where someone was shipwrecked and they lost their pants. A few too many details. There was a couple scenes where the characters didn't do something wrong, but it wasn't wise to do. I can't specify because you know, spoilers. This is one of the few books that I enjoyed part or most of, but most likely won't read again. Not to say that it's a bad book at all, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected. Thank you to the publisher for the complimentary e-book I received to review through Netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review, and the thoughts are my own.