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Durch das große Feuer by Alice Winn

215 reviews

christopher_shiprack's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Violence, Blood, Grief, Alcohol, and War

Minor: Suicide

sarahjrr's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective sad tense 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? It's complicated

5.0

Hands down the best book I’ve ever read. Crazy that this is Alice Winn’s debut. I found myself laughing, crying, being endlessly frustrated and hopeful. The way Winn describes the movement between characters and the implications and devastation of war is incredible. As much as this novel goes far in highlighting the injustices of historical laws against LGBTQIA+, it is written in such a way that their sexuality and genders is irrelevant. It’s a complete depiction of ‘love is love’ and it’s just beautiful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

aliiloue's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional 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

5.0

i have no words for how utterly heart wrenching this book is. it's horror, it's beauty. it's cruelty, it's tenderness. gaunt, ellwood, you will always be famous.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

kaylalikesbooks's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.75

This was overall such a beautiful and well written book. It balanced the themes of romance and war so incredibly well with both constantly overlapping and adding to each other. I felt the relationships in this book were tackled very well in being realistic for the time period and circumstances, making the book so eloquently painful to read. The ending

followed from the rest of the book in being quite devastating - their lives are better outside of the war but neither are quite happy or without their issues.

  It’s realistic and devastatingly beautiful. The only reason I couldn’t give it five stars is I felt some plot points were slightly rushed in a manner that makes it hard to remember certain points of the book or characters that weren’t Elwood and Gaunt, but overall really fantastic read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Violence, Antisemitism, and War

rhi_'s review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Homophobia, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual content, and Xenophobia

changbinslemonade's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

I’ll read this book at least as many times as gaunt read adam bede

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Suicide

xcampuskiddo's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

5.0

It's like a British Band of Brothers for World War I. Raw, compelling, unflinching, deeply researched, beautiful, and poignant. Does not feature either gaybaiting or queer trauma in the plot outside of the legal concerns/need to be discreet.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Alcohol, and Classism

Minor: Confinement, Suicide, Medical content, and Fire/Fire injury

Antisemitism is on the part of characters in the book who are not sympathetic; the author does not either explicitly or implicitly condone antisemitism. Xenophobia is related to one main character being German-British and facing suspicion by others, and to one character of color who faces implicit xenophobia.

lily_mae777's review against another edition

reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Blood, and War

Moderate: Homophobia

It’s really good. Characters did piss me off a lot of the time but not to the point were I disliked them 👏

fullofbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Grief, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

floatwiththesticks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad 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

5.0

This book consumed me. I felt incomplete whenever I wasn’t reading, and was desperate to get back to it. I’m not sure I’ve ever read such an engrossing love story and I’m certain I’ve never read anything that put me on the front lines of a war. I really feel like I lived the trenches with them - and that is this author’s astounding talent.
If England is magic, so is this novel. 

I GRIEVED GAUNT ALONG WITH ELWOOD AND LITERALLY SCREAMED WHEN HE WAS ALIVE!!!!!! I almost threw my kindle across the room in happiness. They’re so gorgeous together, I swooned. Idiots in love, friends to lovers, SLOW BURN A03 tags.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Sexual content