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whtbout2ndbrkfst's review

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adventurous challenging hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-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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drraytay's review against another edition

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challenging dark medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Diverse cast of characters? No

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bookedbymadeline's review

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challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

It look me so long to read because I was in a slump and I wasn’t loving the writing style. It’s very difficult to write books from a young child’s POV and not have it be telling over showing (I rarely see this child narrator trope done well tbh) which is why I didn’t like the writing style.

I just had such a hard time focusing and reading more than 10 pages a day. I didn’t fully feel engaged until part 2. It’s a very emotional and difficult book, which made me cry a few times. I learned things about the war and ethnic cleansing that I didn’t know before. I also marked a lot of quotes that I found profound or something I wanted to remember

I had one issue with the book and that was the author writing about what happened, that “the guilt of one side doesn’t determine the innocence of the other.” I understand what she’s trying to say but in this case, it was a genocide, it comes across as “well the Serbians did bad things but so did the other side” when it’s not that simple because the “other side” (Croatians and Bosnians) are innocent and did “bad things too” in order to survive and defend themselves.

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puttingwingsonwords's review against another edition

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dark reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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thehmkane's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Very solid. Great prose, heartwrenching story. Shines a light on a topic I knew little about.

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mrlsdevos's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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kaela_arcuri's review

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emotional informative medium-paced

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

4.0

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kathrynjl's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Beautifully written and absolutely heartbreaking, Girl at War tells the story of ten year old Ana and her family during the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s. It’s a coming of age story set against a backdrop of violence and conflict, told through the eyes of a child as she grows up. Overall, a really moving and readable novel.

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