Battle of Britain by Chris Priestley is part of the My Story series. This book is set in England during mid 20th Century. It is the life of a young man during World War II whose love for flying gets him to enlist for the RAF.
This book really let me down. This review had a very short plot summary and will probably be a short review because really the plot felt short. The books in the My Story series are usually a short read, however this time the plot was so short that it just skipped on the details.
I didn't empathise or even get to know the protagonist's story. In the last chapter the war had already ended and I didn't even realise. I only realised after I got to the last full stop and I checked the time line. The second last chapter was actually set at the time the war officially ended however he had just jumped off his plane and the next thing I knew was the next chapter where he was reading a newspaper article on the war. There was no celebration, not even a 'the war is over'...
The plot was really weak too. Nothing happened to the protagonist, he just enlisted, made friend, shot some planes and 'THE END'. Really, I love the series but I wouldn't recommend this one.
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