Elizabeth Wein, the author of Rose Under Fire, establishes an interactive way to hook the reader to the book, such as using poems written by the protagonist, diary entries by the protagonist, and mysterious questions that leave the reader wanting to flip the next page of the novel. Rose Under Fire is a very action-packed book, but in the first part of the book it is mostly uneventful. It establishes the characters and the story of the book throughout the first fifty pages.

Throughout the first part of the novel, Wein makes it look like a journal entry to keep the reader intrigued and involved in the piece of work. She includes the protagonists’ name, “Rose Hoyer Justice,” along with the date “August 2, 1944,” and finally the location, “Hamble,