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A review by lawbooks600
The Girl from Hard Times Hill by Emma Barnes
emotional
fast-paced
1.0
Representation: N/A?
Score: Four points out of ten.
Man. This book wasn't it. I hoped that I would enjoy this historical novel but after seeing the low ratings I lowered my expectations but still it didn't enthral me at any point (except the beginning when it looked promising, but soon after that it all went downhill from there. I won't reread this story.) It starts with the main character Megan whose last name I forgot living in Britain a few years after World War II when her father returns from Germany. But here's the catch: Megan is the first person in her family to have an opportunity to either go to grammar school or move with the rest of them to Newcastle. Megan doesn't want any of those choices at first and she spends her time trying to convince everyone that she can decide on something else but that made me not want to read Megan as a character so I had to push myself to finish this book off otherwise I would've given it a DNF. I also couldn't relate to any other character in the narrative either considering one of them is an actual Communist (which I didn't like) nor did I like all the triggering content (Trust me. There is a lot.) The only reason why Megan didn't like grammar school at first is because she said the students are too posh and there are too many rules and she explained that she shouldn't go to Newcastle with her family because she'll miss her old home or something along those lines. At least the narrative ended swiftly. Ah well. On to the next one I suppose.
Score: Four points out of ten.
Man. This book wasn't it. I hoped that I would enjoy this historical novel but after seeing the low ratings I lowered my expectations but still it didn't enthral me at any point (except the beginning when it looked promising, but soon after that it all went downhill from there. I won't reread this story.) It starts with the main character Megan whose last name I forgot living in Britain a few years after World War II when her father returns from Germany. But here's the catch: Megan is the first person in her family to have an opportunity to either go to grammar school or move with the rest of them to Newcastle. Megan doesn't want any of those choices at first and she spends her time trying to convince everyone that she can decide on something else but that made me not want to read Megan as a character so I had to push myself to finish this book off otherwise I would've given it a DNF. I also couldn't relate to any other character in the narrative either considering one of them is an actual Communist (which I didn't like) nor did I like all the triggering content (Trust me. There is a lot.) The only reason why Megan didn't like grammar school at first is because she said the students are too posh and there are too many rules and she explained that she shouldn't go to Newcastle with her family because she'll miss her old home or something along those lines. At least the narrative ended swiftly. Ah well. On to the next one I suppose.
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Medical content
Full trigger warnings: Death of a person by suicide, war themes, World War II, physical injury, hospitalisation, attempted murder of a person in the past