juleswells 's review for:

The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
4.0
inspiring reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character

A really unique book. Starts out almost reminding me of a Jane Austen book: slow but interesting, lots of character development & random events. But then the 2nd half was a little less like that but still hard to describe. Very slow burn romance, odd storylines for some of the characters, but overall it just worked & was good!