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In Memoriam by Alice Winn

47 reviews

sylexlibris's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , War, and Injury/Injury detail

swanuponsleda's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Torture, and Classism

Minor: Misogyny, Racism, Self harm, Antisemitism, Death of parent, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

katiesbeengone's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Alcohol, and Classism

kristynpittman's review against another edition

adventurous emotional informative tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

In Memoriam by Alice Winn is absolutely required reading. Our story begins in 1914. The war is in its infancy and our main characters, Gaunt & Ellwood, are among their friends at Preshute boarding school enjoying the last days of boyhood. One by one as they enter the theatre of war their childhood ideals and easy smiles are striped away. Every bullet, every fallen soldier, is another spec of humanity lost to the trenches. 
Against the backdrop of chaos and despair Gaunt and Ellwood are able to have moments of happiness, poetry, and devotion. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

hearteyes's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Animal death, Suicide, and Vomit

elouisewills's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Beautiful book. It feels terribly sad, but in a dulled way that seems to reflect how the characters must be feeling: life is much worse than it once was but I am too tired and ruined to care enough about anything or about how sad I am.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Homophobia, and Antisemitism

miles's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I'm an absolute sucker for books that rip out my heart and wreck it into a million pieces only to put it back together by the end of it and give me a soft forehead kiss.
Lots of realistic pain and terror but interspersed with wonderfully tender and funny moments of beauty that capture your heart.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Antisemitism

novaa's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and War

butterbrioche's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

I almost feel to raw to be writing this right now but I have to in order to get it all out. I’m not someone who reads books that take place during any war but I saw someone talking about this and so I dived in, without preparing my heart. Winn simultaneously writes this story with such tenderness and intensity. Perhaps a tender intensity. She doesn’t shy away from the horrors of war, no matter how graphic. She also has these characters grapple what it means for a war to be honorable and noble, to fight for “king and country”.  

I think that this story will haunt me for a long time. I feel so raw and exposed. I feel, I feel, I feel. What a story. I even cried halfway through and I haven’t cried while reading in a really long time. Watching the changes in Gaunt and Ellwood was devastating, watching them almost become shadows of their former selves but this is the cost of war. This is the cost of everything.

In the end, I hope Sidney and Heinrich could live out the rest of the days holding each others hearts in their hands and knowing that those hands are safe. Those hands are home. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Murder, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death and Death of parent

sjanke2's review against another edition

dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail