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A review by emilyxstar
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
5.0
4.8/5 stars!
I watched the film The Aftermath last year when I had covid and I thought it was amazing. It’s maybe not a book I would buy brand-new, but if I saw it in a charity shop I would get it and I saw it last week and I gasped (I think I scared the person next to me). I’ve been in such a bad reading slump recently I needed something like this to bring me back of track because I already watched the film I sort of knew what was going to happen even though this book deters quite a bit from the film I felt I would stick to this as so many books I have been reading recently I felt nothing/didn’t even finish.
The aftermath truly is about the aftermath of war and the aftermath of Rachael and Lewis’s marriage also with Luthbert and his daughter losing his wife/her mother. It sounds stupid to say, but before watching the film, I didn’t actually realise how much the war affected Germany afterwards, how they were treated like nothing how they were starving, their homes weren’t even properly being rebuilt. It sounds silly, but reading the book as well shed so much light on how badly Germany were treated after the war. Only a very small portion of Germans were Nazis, very very small compared to the millions of Germans that were innocent. Almost made to feel guilty of Hitler’s crimes, like it was all individually their fault for the war camps.
What I like about the book is bringing German and English people together. Rachael at the beginning has resentment towards the Germans for the loss of her son and the estrangement of her marriage. Luthebert losing his wife and his daughter Frieda blaming the English for the loss of her mother. I felt in the film that this was done a lot better than the book. It makes so much sense the changes that they made from the book. It’s so much more heartfelt and the messages so much clearer where the books message is a little bit more murky. The ending of the film is a lot better than the book and the relationship between the characters are so much stronger, especially Lewis.
I think the film focuses a lot more on the affair. There may be other aspects to the book as there are some characters in this book that were not in the film. There was so many changes it did feel like it was a different book slightly, but I have to admit sadly I did prefer the film to the book and that’s why it’s a 4.8 out of five stars. I don’t even know if I would’ve loved this book as much if I hadn’t of watched the film but I still really did love this book I couldn’t put it down. I was so addicted even though the flow is a little bit inconsistent. Sometimes I feel it does go of piece and it needs to be brought back to its centre. I still enjoyed it. I love the message. I think it’s very interesting and it brings to light how the Germans were treated during the end of the war something I didn’t really know too much about being English in history we only really learn of our victory.
I watched the film The Aftermath last year when I had covid and I thought it was amazing. It’s maybe not a book I would buy brand-new, but if I saw it in a charity shop I would get it and I saw it last week and I gasped (I think I scared the person next to me). I’ve been in such a bad reading slump recently I needed something like this to bring me back of track because I already watched the film I sort of knew what was going to happen even though this book deters quite a bit from the film I felt I would stick to this as so many books I have been reading recently I felt nothing/didn’t even finish.
The aftermath truly is about the aftermath of war and the aftermath of Rachael and Lewis’s marriage also with Luthbert and his daughter losing his wife/her mother. It sounds stupid to say, but before watching the film, I didn’t actually realise how much the war affected Germany afterwards, how they were treated like nothing how they were starving, their homes weren’t even properly being rebuilt. It sounds silly, but reading the book as well shed so much light on how badly Germany were treated after the war. Only a very small portion of Germans were Nazis, very very small compared to the millions of Germans that were innocent. Almost made to feel guilty of Hitler’s crimes, like it was all individually their fault for the war camps.
What I like about the book is bringing German and English people together. Rachael at the beginning has resentment towards the Germans for the loss of her son and the estrangement of her marriage. Luthebert losing his wife and his daughter Frieda blaming the English for the loss of her mother. I felt in the film that this was done a lot better than the book. It makes so much sense the changes that they made from the book. It’s so much more heartfelt and the messages so much clearer where the books message is a little bit more murky. The ending of the film is a lot better than the book and the relationship between the characters are so much stronger, especially Lewis.
I think the film focuses a lot more on the affair. There may be other aspects to the book as there are some characters in this book that were not in the film. There was so many changes it did feel like it was a different book slightly, but I have to admit sadly I did prefer the film to the book and that’s why it’s a 4.8 out of five stars. I don’t even know if I would’ve loved this book as much if I hadn’t of watched the film but I still really did love this book I couldn’t put it down. I was so addicted even though the flow is a little bit inconsistent. Sometimes I feel it does go of piece and it needs to be brought back to its centre. I still enjoyed it. I love the message. I think it’s very interesting and it brings to light how the Germans were treated during the end of the war something I didn’t really know too much about being English in history we only really learn of our victory.