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I'm not sure if it's because it'd been so long since I read the first two or if the thread that binds these together as a trilogy really is that thin. All are set in the same region of France and I think some of the supporting characters families overlap, and it's not until the ending
While I enjoyed having much of the story set during WWII because it lent a sense of urgency, I found much of the details laborious and they detracted from the immediacy of what was going on in the story. It took the author two or three dense paragraphs to say "After a light breakfast, character A left the house and ventured to Town B" because she'd stop to describe the table, the breakfast, the air, the door, the road, the sky, etc. Clearly the author loves creating a sense of space and imagery but after the first couple hundred pages I was no longer paying attention.
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in which other characters like Alais and Leonie, etc show up as ghosts that it even dawned on me. This was abrupt and felt tacked on despite clearly being the event everything was leading up to.While I enjoyed having much of the story set during WWII because it lent a sense of urgency, I found much of the details laborious and they detracted from the immediacy of what was going on in the story. It took the author two or three dense paragraphs to say "After a light breakfast, character A left the house and ventured to Town B" because she'd stop to describe the table, the breakfast, the air, the door, the road, the sky, etc. Clearly the author loves creating a sense of space and imagery but after the first couple hundred pages I was no longer paying attention.