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The Ghost Road

Pat Barker

3.99 AVERAGE

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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more or a scan for good quotes to use in my exam but it was good, very striking and i didn't enjoy the rivers chapters but it was definitely a different read for sure
dark hopeful sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark informative sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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definitely the worst in the series. I hated dr. Rivers story line in this book and think the overall story would've been better had it ended with the previous book. Although most of this book wasn't great I do think the ending was amazing and the use of diary entries for prior's story line was the perfect way to foreshadow it. I loved /hated watching them countdown to armistice day knowing he probably wouldn't make it.

I usually avoid historical fiction, but I somehow got looped into Barker’s WWI trilogy some years ago and I’m glad I finally finished it.

The Ghost Road, like all the books in this series, is not flashy. It’s a muted meditation on the intimate human costs wrought by war—mentally, physically, societally. At first, the book seems too muted. But as it builds towards its devastating climax, one begins to understand Barker’s play here. Even across the many years I read this trilogy, the characters soon felt like close confidants, which makes the final conclusion all the more haunting.

There’s the wonder of fiction: making abstract history from almost a century ago feel richly, frighteningly, sadly real.
challenging medium-paced
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3.75
challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes