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A review by maria_hossain
The Season of Dreams by Fiona Valpy
2.0
Not as good as The Recipe for Hope, another book by the author in the Escape to France series. I redacted three stars because firstly, Sara felt like a hypocrite who reasoned the fallout of her relationship with her former fiance is due to her jumping into an engagement after one year of dating him but jumps (again) into another engagement after less than 3 months of dating afterward. Because the guy isn't greedy and a cheater (yet) like her previous fiance? The author claimed Sara was an overcautious girl who's afraid to enter a relationship but jumps into one that can be called a rebound very easily. Thomas can be a rebound, yet we're expected to believe this relationship will work even though the previous one didn't.
The second reason I redacted two stars is because the last wedding of the season was of a British veteran from Afghanistan. I cannot justify the atrocities the Western world left in Afghanistan after they were the one who started all the war and atrocities there. But I was trying to overlook it until the author compared the veteran groom's time in Afghanistan to the French resistance groups rebellion during the WWII. If you're gonna compare a veteran from Afghanistan to the French resistance groups, then the Afghan people must be the Nazis, non?? Why else would you say the army veteran was "protecting" their country if you don't consider the Afghans in the same vein as the Nazis?? Did Afghanistan attack Britain like the Nazis occupied France?? Isn't that the other way around?? The Soviet and the USA attacked Afghanistan and forever destroyed that country and its people and made them refugees?? Shame on the author for spreading this kind of narrative through her feel-good book about hope and love against hate and vice versa.
Thank you, NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK, for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest opinion
The second reason I redacted two stars is because the last wedding of the season was of a British veteran from Afghanistan. I cannot justify the atrocities the Western world left in Afghanistan after they were the one who started all the war and atrocities there. But I was trying to overlook it until the author compared the veteran groom's time in Afghanistan to the French resistance groups rebellion during the WWII. If you're gonna compare a veteran from Afghanistan to the French resistance groups, then the Afghan people must be the Nazis, non?? Why else would you say the army veteran was "protecting" their country if you don't consider the Afghans in the same vein as the Nazis?? Did Afghanistan attack Britain like the Nazis occupied France?? Isn't that the other way around?? The Soviet and the USA attacked Afghanistan and forever destroyed that country and its people and made them refugees?? Shame on the author for spreading this kind of narrative through her feel-good book about hope and love against hate and vice versa.
Thank you, NetGalley and Amazon Publishing UK, for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest opinion