4.03 AVERAGE

adventurous dark emotional 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: Yes
adventurous dark informative reflective sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
reflective sad medium-paced
dark emotional informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

Wow, amazing book written in the viewpoint of a young soldier in the trenches. This German soldier could have been any nationality, it reads through the struggle they live in day in day out. I've never really thought about it from the germans during the war.
dark reflective sad fast-paced

that was not fair

"i have a reason to be an angsty teen now," -me after reading this.

"i'm going to go listen to billie eilish and cry," -also me after reading this.


read partially on audiobook and partially annotated

This book could have been written from a German OR British perspective. There is no difference within the ranks of soldier during WW1. They were all just doing what they were told.
dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

A man cannot realize that above such shattered bodies there are still human faces in which life goes its daily round. And this is only one hospital, one single station; there are hundreds of thousands in Germany, hundreds of thousands in France, hundreds of thousands in Russia. How senseless is everything that can ever be written, done, or thought, when such things are possible. It must be all lies and of no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is.
dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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