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terragoes 's review for:
The Yellow Birds
by Kevin Powers
The buzz on this book made me think it would be this brilliant and incredible story about the war, it only pissed me off. I finished the book angry, and not in the way the author might have intended.
The prose was too fluffy and literary, especially if I'm to believe the narration is by a 21-year-old infantryman. Maybe if I didn't have so many personal friends who are or have been 21-year-old infantrymen, the story would have been more believable to me, but while the prose was beautiful, it didn't fit with the story or the character.
I also found the character development to be extremely lacking.
The end shocked and startled and frustrated me and it left me hating the book and the story and the characters, even as poorly defined as they were.
The prose was too fluffy and literary, especially if I'm to believe the narration is by a 21-year-old infantryman. Maybe if I didn't have so many personal friends who are or have been 21-year-old infantrymen, the story would have been more believable to me, but while the prose was beautiful, it didn't fit with the story or the character.
I also found the character development to be extremely lacking.
The end shocked and startled and frustrated me and it left me hating the book and the story and the characters, even as poorly defined as they were.