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elouisewills's review

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

Beautiful book. It feels terribly sad, but in a dulled way that seems to reflect how the characters must be feeling: life is much worse than it once was but I am too tired and ruined to care enough about anything or about how sad I am.

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miles's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I'm an absolute sucker for books that rip out my heart and wreck it into a million pieces only to put it back together by the end of it and give me a soft forehead kiss.
Lots of realistic pain and terror but interspersed with wonderfully tender and funny moments of beauty that capture your heart.

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butterbrioche's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

I almost feel to raw to be writing this right now but I have to in order to get it all out. I’m not someone who reads books that take place during any war but I saw someone talking about this and so I dived in, without preparing my heart. Winn simultaneously writes this story with such tenderness and intensity. Perhaps a tender intensity. She doesn’t shy away from the horrors of war, no matter how graphic. She also has these characters grapple what it means for a war to be honorable and noble, to fight for “king and country”.

I think that this story will haunt me for a long time. I feel so raw and exposed. I feel, I feel, I feel. What a story. I even cried halfway through and I haven’t cried while reading in a really long time. Watching the changes in Gaunt and Ellwood was devastating, watching them almost become shadows of their former selves but this is the cost of war. This is the cost of everything.

In the end, I hope Sidney and Heinrich could live out the rest of the days holding each others hearts in their hands and knowing that those hands are safe. Those hands are home.

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horchata's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

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luckyseven's review against another edition

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dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

Wow. Just a great book. I can’t believe this is the author’s debut novel!! It was so gut and heart wrenching, I finished it in 3 hours. The drive of the characters keeps you hooked. They can be lovable and silly, crude and cruel, they are only human after all. I highly recommend this for anyone that loves a “realistic” historical fiction book that challenges love.

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