This book was both sweet and sad. It’s a love story between a woman and a place and its people. Even though it had a love theme, I wouldn’t call it a love story - there was a lot of love between Juliet and her childhood friends and also between Juliet and her new loves in Guernsey. The book had a lot of difficult stories about WWII and how people and families were affected which was pretty hard for me to read (admittedly I skimmed over the harder parts) but they all were very well written. A lot of reviews I had read said they found it hard with the letter format but I really enjoyed it (after the 3rd letter when I was still like ok who are these people??). I enjoyed that there weren’t tooooo many main characters and it was fairly easy to understand and love each one. Using the letters, the author was able to round out the characters and make them more real. The underlying love story was fairly typical so that didn’t reel me in, but it was the characters - especially Elizabeth that I loved and made me want to keep reading. It’s definitely a good book and well worth the read - can’t wait to finish work tonight and watch the Netflix version! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 from me!