Something Worth Landing For: A Sweeping Contemporary Drama About Family, Hope, and Finding Home

by Jessica Brockmole

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Genres: Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, World War I

71 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 14, 2016

About the author

I have been enamored with history ever since childhood. Enthusiastically playing The Oregon Trail in the school computer lab, exploring museums and living history sites, devouring Sunfire romances, and watching Back to the Future, I hoped that I too would find a time machine someday. Indeed I have found a way to time travel—by researching the past that fascinates me so much. Writing historical fiction and academic historical nonfiction has brought to life that childhood desire to explore the world, past and present.

Also writes under Jessica A. Brockmole

Reviews

[Marleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

An absolute little gem of a short story. I enjoyed being transported to 1918 when towards the end of World War I in Romorantin, France, an American shy pilot meets Victoire, a young assembly worker, who needs a helping hand.
22-year old John Wesley Ward is undeniably a stand-up guy and it takes him only a few hours to decide to ask Victoire to marry him.
What I enjoyed most were the letters that Victoire sends Wes, while he's away closer to the front. The rather terse telegraphs Wes exchanged with his Mother back home bring humor against this rather bleak backdrop of WWI.
If this Jessica Brockmole's style, I look forward to reading a novel by this author.

[Dottie · Rating 4 out of 5]

John Wesley Ward has found himself in a prediciment. After a chance meeting with the beautiful, albiet troubled Victorie, Wesley decides to help out the young woman. As a pilot, Wesley doesn't expect to survive the war. He'll marry Victorie, give her child his name and when he's a casualty of war this woman will be taken care of and can return to her home without the shame of single motherhood. He makes the condition that his "wife" write to him every day, what he never expects is to find someone worth living for.

This was a very sweet short story. I loved the depth of characters, even though the length of the actual story was only around 50 pages. The author did a great job with expanding on backstory considering the limit she had with a novella. Excellent job!

[Melenia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish this had been a full length story. I loved it so much. I wanted to see the baby an their life together. To see the marriage and their growth together.

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable read.

[Alyssa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Something Worth Landing For is by far the best story in this entire novel, which is good considering it is the sole reason that I started reading the book in the first place. Despite it being a short story, I learned much about the characters and was able to connect and feel for them. I even felt that their love story was believable. I will continue to read (and probably love) anything by Jessica Brockmole.

[Heather C · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of my favorites among this collection. This is one of two stories within this collection that focused on pilots and both of the experiences were very different. Brockmole’s story was a bit more lighthearted that what we would later see from Beatriz Williams. The relationship that transpires in this novel didn’t feel the slightest bit contrived because relationships happened differently during times of war. I loved that there is an element of the epistolary style of Brockmole’s earlier novels and I enjoyed the revelation of character that can come through in a letter.

This was read as part of The Fall of Poppies collection.