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3.85 AVERAGE
3.85 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
This is a compelling look at what life can be like for the wives of the men who serve in our armed forces (a perspective that is often forgotten).
emotional
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
This memoir helped me see the challenges that face military families, especially wives, in this more modern time of warfare. It was in some ways a fish out of water story about a woman who never suspected she’d marry a soldier. A lot of the book is about her finding peace with that choice. It was her story but I would have liked to hear more about what her husband was experiencing through these times.
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funny
inspiring
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So many feelings reading this book. I loved the perspective of the wives and the silent support they were able to give one another. What a way to pull the curtain back and show what being a military family can look like. Some reviews are critiquing the author’s liberal views, but that’s like literally the whole point? Simone—having anti-war viewpoints and criticisms about the men killing for their jobs— didn’t want her husband to go into the military. But she loved him enough to follow him.
As a newly christened Army Wife™, this book was what I didn’t know I needed. Although mine and Simone’s life experiences differ extensively, we are also extremely similar and I felt seen in these pages. I can see myself returning to this book whenever the stresses of the Army life get to be too overwhelming. Simone opened herself up to criticism with this book and I can see from other reviews that some took that opportunity and ran with it, but I truly appreciated the open way she divulged her and her husband’s struggles during her time in Georgia; marriage and life in the army is messy and difficult, especially when it was not the life you originally saw from yourself, and especially when combined with mental health struggles. It was a vulnerable and open memoir.
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
fast-paced