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The Pull of the Stars
by Emma Donoghue
Devastation. Light. Hope.
This read was a very quick, intense story. The main character is a nurse in the maternity ward in 1918. Between the war and a terrible flu, she's struggling to help her patients.
The story was captivating, quick-paced and really had the reader understanding the intensity of the situation.
The writing style was not for me though. The book has no chapters, it's just broken into four parts, so the "chapters" are really long with no breaks. I think the shortest one was sixty pages. Much too long for me! I prefer having breaks, which probably would have made the story more captivating since there were great plot points to hook the reader on and have them guessing what happens had a chapter ended there. Also, not using quotation marks was frustrating. Sometimes the speech is on its own line, but other times in the middle of a paragraph which really bothered me.
That being said, the story itself was good, lots of situations going on to keep the reader hooked! I did like how Donoghue broke it into parts, it gave away some of the story but I thought it was a nice added touch. Overall, I would recommend!
This read was a very quick, intense story. The main character is a nurse in the maternity ward in 1918. Between the war and a terrible flu, she's struggling to help her patients.
The story was captivating, quick-paced and really had the reader understanding the intensity of the situation.
The writing style was not for me though. The book has no chapters, it's just broken into four parts, so the "chapters" are really long with no breaks. I think the shortest one was sixty pages. Much too long for me! I prefer having breaks, which probably would have made the story more captivating since there were great plot points to hook the reader on and have them guessing what happens had a chapter ended there. Also, not using quotation marks was frustrating. Sometimes the speech is on its own line, but other times in the middle of a paragraph which really bothered me.
That being said, the story itself was good, lots of situations going on to keep the reader hooked! I did like how Donoghue broke it into parts, it gave away some of the story but I thought it was a nice added touch. Overall, I would recommend!