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falconerreader 's review for:
The War I Finally Won
by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
I loved The War that Saved My Life. I didn't think it needed a sequel.
This sequel deserves its status. Ada learns even more. Side characters are deepened. Tragedy and triumph both shine. And as an adopted mom, while I still maintain that "all you need is love" is a gross oversimplification that can do more harm than good, Ada's development is hard-won and believable, and Susan's instinctive understanding of what she needs is made more believable by the never spoken yet clearly obvious fact that she has been ostracized as a lesbian and knows what it means to not fit in, to not be accepted, to be smart and angry and scorned and stubborn and brave.
This sequel deserves its status. Ada learns even more. Side characters are deepened. Tragedy and triumph both shine. And as an adopted mom, while I still maintain that "all you need is love" is a gross oversimplification that can do more harm than good, Ada's development is hard-won and believable, and Susan's instinctive understanding of what she needs is made more believable by the never spoken yet clearly obvious fact that she has been ostracized as a lesbian and knows what it means to not fit in, to not be accepted, to be smart and angry and scorned and stubborn and brave.