A review by sfujii
Redeployment by Phil Klay

2.0

I got two stories in, and could not continue. Very rare for me. I enjoy wartime novels. However, after having read The Things They Carried, something that I enjoy and appreciate on a literary and emotional level, this book fell below flat for me. The second story I didn't even have a clear sense of what was going on, because there was (in my opinion) an overuse of military vocabulary - so many abbreviations that are not collectively understood by those outside the service.

Maybe this was meant for veterans only, and perhaps they can appreciate it. But I felt the stories I read lacked depth and development, and so I had to move on.

Such a bummer - I was looking forward to this book.