Reviews - Regeneration | The StoryGraph

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There was something missing in this book. Could be that I already read so much about this topic and the time period, so to me this read as a story based on a lot of wikipedia pages. There's a very interesting story there, and it's not badly written - but not good enough to make me want to read the other books in the trilogy.

fifo_86's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark informative sad 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

eluz's review against another edition

2.75

reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

"a hundred years from now they'll still be ploughing up skulls. And i seemed to be in that time and looking back. i think i saw our ghosts."

taraclark's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional informative 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

nocto's review against another edition

3.0

I wasn't sure what I'd think of this - all I knew of it was that it was highly thought of and was about the First World War. I was kind of expecting trenches and bloodshed and horrifics and wasn't at all sure that was what I felt like reading. Actually it's set in a psychiatric hospital in 1917 so it's a more contemplative look at the war than I expected.

The character list featured numerous names I recognised: Sigfried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves - so I wasn't quite sure how much of what I was reading was fictional and also whether I ought to recognise the others too. There is an afternote where the author dealt with the issue of fiction and fact colliding - but I've already forgotten where the line was, I don't think it mattered really. I think the psychiatrist, Rivers, was a real man too.

Anyway, having spent several weeks wondering if it was me or the book to blame for my slow reading pace I devoured this one in not much over 24 hours. It's always the book. And this was a good one. I hope to read the other two volumes of the trilogy before it's due back at the library.

rowan86's review against another edition

2.0

I don't really know, to be honest. I think I rushed it through. There were some areas I was confused as to why they were added in, like Doctor Yealland (speaking of which, what the FUCK is up with that guy?? There's definitely a breach of ethics to whatever the fuck he's doing to his patients)