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This story took me on a brutal emotional rollercoaster—beautifully written, deeply moving, and shedding light on the untold stories of women veterans from the Vietnam War. It lingers long after the last page.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Highly recommend—but bring tissues. Lots of them. You’ll be screaming, bawling, and questioning everything.
Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, War
Moderate: Suicide attempt
Minor: Miscarriage, Pregnancy
This book was beautiful and ugly. It’s always difficult reading about war and all of its accompanying struggles but once again, Kristin did it justice. I loved how tactfully she handles her stories. American history tends to skip over the Vietnam war for a variety of reasons and I’m so glad that this book acknowledged the mistreatment as well as the truths behind the war.
Kristin’s books always do a fantastic job showcasing women, the struggles that women go through, and their unwavering resilience against all odds. Her characters are consistently well-developed. I deeply loved the characters I was meant to love and I disliked the ones I was meant to dislike. But even her unlikable characters are written in a way that you can’t help but still have some sympathy for them.
Fantastic representation of mental illness and trauma and how it affects not only the person struggling, but their friends and family as well. This story was beautiful. I can’t wait to read another one of her books and I’m sad that it took me so long to pick this one up.
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Addiction, Suicide, Suicide attempt
Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, War
Graphic: Mental illness, Violence, Suicide attempt, War
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Gun violence, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Gore, Medical content, Medical trauma
Moderate: Drug abuse, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Suicide attempt
Minor: Car accident
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, War
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gore, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Alcohol, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Drug abuse, Racism, Suicide attempt, War