Review by maggieperrien - The Women

maggieperrien 's review for:

The Women by Kristin Hannah

5.0

emotional informative inspiring reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really enjoyed this book. I feel like I learned a lot about the Vietnam War and about what America was going through during that time I can’t help but see parallels of what we’re going through right now in America. Learning so much about how the women were treated for being in Vietnam as nurses and not “in combat“ was really disheartening. The women of the Vietnam War are trauma bonded and experiencing PTSD just as any of the combat soldiers did. There’s a lot of gruesome details of war and injury and medical trauma in this book, but it was actually the relationships between Frankie and her family and most of all Frankie and her friends that really made this book special for me. Everything does wrap up in a neat little bow, but that’s what makes it fiction - it didn’t need that nice ending for me, but it didn’t detract from my experience and enjoyment of this book.

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