A review by jarvvis
In Memoriam by Alice Winn

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Damn. Shit. I am crying right now.

I don’t really go in for war novels, but perhaps I should, this shit was soul destroying. The violence is very cut and dry, it’s gratuitous and unsentimental, much like the love story at the core of this whole thing. It’s honestly fucking brutal to read, to go through it all and feel that love is just as unforgiving as war. It does, vague spoiler here,

end on a lighter note but is far from saccharine, which did not comfort me in my final moments reading this but was objectively the correct choice

. Huge departure from what I normally read, would do this again.