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A review by thecaffeinatedreader
The Poppy Wife: A Novel of the Great War by Caroline Scott
5.0
https://thecaffeinatedreader.com/2019/11/02/photographer-of-the-lost/
I remember the first time I read ‘The Book Thief’ it utterly consumed me on an emotional level, it was rare that a non-fantasy book could have such a huge impact on me. That was a while ago, but, last night as I was reading the last few pages [because of course, I procrastinate] I knew that this review was going to be raw to write.
This book is SO poetic in its prose, it’s very rare for me to enjoy books written in the present tense in general, but after just simply noting it was in fact in the present tense, I never gave that a second thought. It was engrossing, emotional, endearing, so many other awesome e words I’m sure, but really it was just simply amazing.
This book was a journey, a spiritual and, as I said already, emotional one.
The perspectives shift, Harry and Edie at various point during and after the war. There’s loss, grief at its rawest form, and love in perhaps its most vulnerable form.
You felt as if you were looking through War-Torn France with them through a majority of it, and their emotions slid from the page to your heart.
I don’t want to give away more of what happens, but, suffice to say if you have any interest in a book set post-WWI that will fill your heart, this one is for you.
Thank you to Anne and the Publisher for a copy of this in exchange for my honest review as part of the blog tour.
I remember the first time I read ‘The Book Thief’ it utterly consumed me on an emotional level, it was rare that a non-fantasy book could have such a huge impact on me. That was a while ago, but, last night as I was reading the last few pages [because of course, I procrastinate] I knew that this review was going to be raw to write.
This book is SO poetic in its prose, it’s very rare for me to enjoy books written in the present tense in general, but after just simply noting it was in fact in the present tense, I never gave that a second thought. It was engrossing, emotional, endearing, so many other awesome e words I’m sure, but really it was just simply amazing.
This book was a journey, a spiritual and, as I said already, emotional one.
The perspectives shift, Harry and Edie at various point during and after the war. There’s loss, grief at its rawest form, and love in perhaps its most vulnerable form.
You felt as if you were looking through War-Torn France with them through a majority of it, and their emotions slid from the page to your heart.
I don’t want to give away more of what happens, but, suffice to say if you have any interest in a book set post-WWI that will fill your heart, this one is for you.
Thank you to Anne and the Publisher for a copy of this in exchange for my honest review as part of the blog tour.