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brendan_e_m 's review for:
The Lost Year
by Katherine Marsh
This had everything I want in historical fiction: plot twists, multiple narrators, intricate family dynamics, and a historical context about which I knew very little. One of the storylines involves a 7th grader staying at home in the 2020 covid world, and I have been skeptical that novels about covid can captivate young readers so close to the historical event (how interesting can it be to describe the tedium, low-burning fear, and isolation of early covid days?), but Marsh does an excellent job making Matthew's section dramatic and essential.