aubreyw08 's review for:

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I need a couple days to recover from what I just read. It was a roller-coaster of emotions. The style in which the book is formatted is really smart, that fact that it was not in chronological order was brilliantly done. The plot twist is like a genuine knife to the gut. I really like how it displays the inner turmoil Bartle goes through and how it shows the brutality of war.
Normally I find that authors first books are not the best, but this one is spectacular. The writing style if phenomenal and I will be thinking about this book non-stop for the next week at least.