A review by jameswmoore
The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh

4.0

When this book is diving into history, I liked it a lot - this is an event of which I knew very little, and each new wrinkle had me intrigued. While I appreciated some of the parallels to covid-times (and as a document to remember what covid-times were like), the "modern day" stuff wasn't quite as compelling to me...until it all came together - which, even when i figured out what was afoot, comes together in a really lovely, moving, blunt way - I appreciated that there was no sugar coating this horrific thing that happened. And of course, given our times, it's important to know more about Ukraine's history. Well worth a read.