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4.26 AVERAGE
4.26 AVERAGE
Fantastic!! Still can’t believe it is a true story. Very long but worth the read! Hopefully the movie happens because it will be so good.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5 stars. What an interesting and inspiration story of a young Italian man faced with the atrocities of WWII. I laughed, I cried, I felt love and tension. The plot was at times absolutely gripping and it was well paced. I learned so much about a little known aspect of Italy in WWII and if I had more time, I would love to research a bit more of that. There were some inspirational quotes. Only reason it didn't get a five was it isn't the kind of book I'm going to recommend to all my friends as I think it's a bit niche (comparing it to books like The Great Alone and Crawdads). But the best book I've read in a little while.
adventurous
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
It was a very cool historical account however, the story was very lacking.
The dialogue was stiff and juvenile, and the plot wove together roughly.
Gave it 30 pages—I usually give it 50–but couldn’t handle it. First of all, to Sue the first 10 pages as basically a fourth wall is wild. The priest may have well have turned to the camera and been like, I hope we don’t get bombed eh eh eh! But also, it’s boring and the perspective is broken. Probably, it’s trying to straddle the times when Pino has related parts of the story in great detail, and so it’s comfortable contextualizing certain exchanges and scenes, I’m guessing. Then, it pulls back and refuses information sometimes they you ought to be privy to based on what is established already, when Pino does provide that context, basically. Suddenly the other characters feel like nothing more than caricatures in plays, shouting their motivations and regurgitating trite war scene movie dialogue.
Not my jam. Though, to be fair, I hardly like any war books anyway, so it would have had to be pretty stellar to keep my interest anyhow. Being boring and broken and trite in the first pages is not the way to do that.
Not my jam. Though, to be fair, I hardly like any war books anyway, so it would have had to be pretty stellar to keep my interest anyhow. Being boring and broken and trite in the first pages is not the way to do that.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
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
adventurous
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I loved this story. It was amazing and I am so glad to have heard it. It was good to read about wwII from the perspective of Italy and not France for once. But the author was not the best writer and could have used a better editor.
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes