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nancidrum 's review for:
The Summer Before the War
by Helen Simonson
The first half of the book was really slow. At just about mid-point it turned around and by the last 100 pages I found I couldn't put it down. Bearing in mind the book is almost 500 pages, that was about 250 pages of forced reading. Two things carried me on to complete it: 1. I was reading it for a challenge and didn't want to back out on my commitment 2. I had read her previous novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, which I enjoyed so I had hope this would get better. Had the first half been as captivating as the last third, it would have earned 4 stars.