The sequel to the rather charming The Foundling Boy, The Foundling’s War takes up the story of Jean Arnaud in 1940, just after the fall of France. Jean makes his way back to Paris where he has to learn how to manoeuvre through life in a very changed world under German occupation. Unfortunately this sequel has very little of the charm of the earlier book. It’s too picaresque, with too many characters and too many boyish escapades which are rather inappropriate in a period when atrocities were occurring just a jackboot away. All in all a somewhat frivolous and rather tedious approach to a very serious era.

(Three and a half) Thank you Net Galley. An interesting sequel to "The Foundling Boy". The book is good but falls short of the earlier volume. The chronicle of Arnaud's life does not evoke the same interest in the reader here. At times it even seems contrived. Overall - readable.

Skimmed through a bit after not finishing this book's predecessor and found more of the same.

The Foundling's War didn't work for me. I like the idea of the story, but the telling was very difficult for me to get into and I couldn't bring myself to finish the narrative. The author's style is overly descriptive and the characterizations felt rather thin. I couldn't relate to the protagonist and was intensely aware that the novel built on its predecessor which I was also unable to finish.