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A review by tospeakordie
Strange Meeting by Susan Hill
challenging
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
my heart- it’s a mess.
I think I believe that they really had a rare relationship and friendship, and I think there were probably romantic feelings involved as well. it doesn’t matter how they loved each other because this is a story of human love on the front line. maybe they were lovers, and I’d like to think they were lovers, but ultimately that doesn’t change anything for how much they became a part of each other throughout this books.
it’s difficult to quantify how internally distressed this made me, at wars, at our inability to learn from our mistakes, and every time I read ‘they think it’ll be over by Christmas’ I could have cried.
this is also really petty, but i have an immense hate for the cover and i literally would never have picked it up had it not been on sale. make better covers. literature deserves to be represented by art that doesn’t require hiding away. (it just doesn’t WORK)
I think I believe that they really had a rare relationship and friendship, and I think there were probably romantic feelings involved as well. it doesn’t matter how they loved each other because this is a story of human love on the front line. maybe they were lovers, and I’d like to think they were lovers, but ultimately that doesn’t change anything for how much they became a part of each other throughout this books.
it’s difficult to quantify how internally distressed this made me, at wars, at our inability to learn from our mistakes, and every time I read ‘they think it’ll be over by Christmas’ I could have cried.
this is also really petty, but i have an immense hate for the cover and i literally would never have picked it up had it not been on sale. make better covers. literature deserves to be represented by art that doesn’t require hiding away. (it just doesn’t WORK)