Just Another Girl on the Road

A WWII Romance with Erotic scenes.
I loved the WWII resistance story, the story itself was good. The characters were rather odd and the scenes did not match the character. The story would be good with Katrinka a young girl as a resistance fighter, but unbelievable in how the character was portrayed. The story was very good than out of nowhere there would be an explicit sexual scene that added nothing to the story and felt rather out of place. If those scenes were not there I would probably give the book 4 stars for the resistance story. It would have been better if the romance would have been left between Farr and Katrinka or at least Farr Katrinka and Will. The story of the resistance fighters was rather good in itself and if you are one that likes explicit scenes you will probably like this book.

I have mixed feelings about this book. I loved the ideas behind the story and some of the characters were interesting, but I felt that it did not quite hang together. There were episodes in the book where the author concluded a situation without having developed the concept first - when Katrinka first meets Wolf, there is liittle hint of attraction, but in the next paragraph, they are deeply in love, an idea that persists throughout the book, despite Katrinka's infidelities. And the encounter with Josef seemed to have been added in later to allow the author to finish the book neatly - good idea, but I suspect this was not part of the original script and was added to try and tie up loose ends..

This could have been a very good book but , for me, just misses the mark.

An interesting read, the writing is good and I loved the characters, the instant love wasn’t great in some scenes and felt a bit erratic at times, but an enjoyable read.


Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

The author did a brilliant job of capturing the time period in this novel. The characters and plot were also well written. This was a great piece of historical fiction!

I've always found it difficult to post from my iPad reviews, but I'm going to try.

The setting of WWII for stories is always emotional and evocative. There is so much courage, bravado, grit and determination shown and at the same time the lesser attributes of betrayal, cowardice and envy and very often the more basic " fear for your life" and for those around you.

This story encompasses all that is a girl of mixed background who found herself in circumstances and places beyond her control and displayed a sense of compassion to the dying which was not understood by all.

Displaying courage way beyond her 18 years our heroine is made of sterling stuff.

Slightly different to the usual settings of WWII

Oof. The first chapter of this book jumps perspective at least eight times. That's too much; it's dizzying.
I may come back to this, but to open with a brutal rape and nauseating character jumps is just more than I can handle right now.

Just Another Girl on the Road tells a story of Katrinka, who is really all but just another girl on the road.

We follow her journey through WWII torn Europe and the Far East, as well as a little bit of the American West Coast. We encounter new loves, loves lost, and loves meant for a time greater than the present.

You are drawn into Katrinka's story as it is told from multiple view points—all from people she cares deeply for and about. For a girl who is a true picture of compassion in combination of wanderlust, her story is one that tugs at every heartstring in your body.

The only aspect of Just Another Girl on the Road that I was not particularly drawn to was the high frequency of descriptive romance scenes.

Overall, this was well written and Kensington has such beautiful and lyrical prose.

Just Another Girl on the Road is a book with intriguing promise. I don't often read historical fiction, but I've recently realized that I tend to enjoy it when I do.

I loved what a unique setting the story had, stranded in France (enemy territory, yikes) and following a undercover Jedburgh unit. The author did a great job of setting up the destruction of the time period while balancing it with hidden beauty in the midst of it. It was good writing and I found myself imagining the scenery and events very vividly as they occurred.

One thing that was trouble for me was my inability to relate to any of the characters. I was taken aback by how quickly two of the characters fell into such intense emotions for one another, despite her tendency to continue to look for sexual fulfillment from others throughout their relationship and her continual pull back to someone else.
The erotica was… also a bit much for me. It's one thing if there's natural chemistry, or a slow-build up, or anything that draws you into the characters and makes you root for them, but the scenes occasionally seemed rushed, random, and a bit out of place.

I am very grateful for the opportunity to read this book ahead of time & I really liked getting to see an aspect of the war-torn period that I hadn't read about before!

Just Another Girl on the Road is the story of Katrinka, a young girl caught in the middle of the war in France in 1944. We learn more of Katrinka's upbringing as the story develops which helps to explain her complex character, having two very different men as fathers caught in a love triangle with her independent mother. History looks to be repeating itself a she becomes involved in her own love triangle with Nye and Farr.

But this is much more than just a love story, we also learn how the war affected every day life and how ordinary people risked everything to aid the Allied Forces and the French Resistance.

The sexual scenes do not really add much to the story, some readers may find Katrinka's attitude to sex a sign of an independent, strong young woman - others may feel it is the sign of deeper issues coming from her childhood.

I was given a copy of Just Another Girl on the Road by NetGalley and the Publishers in return for my unbiased review.

I have mixed feelings about this book. I loved the story of the resistance and the development of the characters, particularly Katrinka's. But the overt sexual scenes felt out of place and almost forced in without really adding anything to the story.

Another fab wwII read. Yet different from many others I’ve read. It’s way more than a love story and takes you through what went on behind the scenes. I would recommend

Unfortunately this book wasn't really for me - I'm usually a fan of historical novels with lots of romance and espionage, and I certainly did find the setting and context really interesting. The romances/continual shifting of relationships seemed inexplicable, and Katrinka as a protagonist was actually pretty irritating - and I don't think that her nomadic lifestyle and (again, pretty unrealistic) background really added anything to the story.