A review by loveclairebearx
In Memoriam by Alice Winn

challenging dark sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I haven’t read many (any?) other WWI books to compare this to, but Winn paints a vivid portrait of the day to day atrocities of the warfront. I expected a bit more gay and a lot less gore, but that’s a personal problem. The real problem here? In a time where homosexuality was criminalized, it feels like some serious revisionist history to not have worked the immense threat and unique challenges of that into the storyline.
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