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All Clear / Connie Willis
4 stars

In this continuation of “Blackout”, it picks up exactly where the first book leaves off.
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Eileen, Polly and Mike have found each other in London in 1941 during the Blitz. They are still trying to figure out how to get back home to 2060, since their drops won’t open. (hide spoiler)]
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It is coming close to the time where Polly won’t know where and when the bombs are landing, and after that, things will be far more dangerous for them. In addition, Polly has a deadline. One of her earlier assignments had her travel back to VE-Day in 1945, so her 1941 self has to be gone so there is no overlap.

It has only been a couple of months, I think, since I read “Blackout”, so the events weren’t too far away in my head. However, the first 1/3 of the book or so wasn’t as interesting as it got to be later in the book. Have to admit, for how much I disliked Alf and Binnie, they were some good comic relief, at times! Still loved Sir Godfrey. I liked how the book wrapped up, though I was still left with one question from one hint of something at the very end, so I’m not quite sure I understood that one little bit. Didn’t like this one quite as much as the first, though. Still, overall, really liked it.