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Iryna’s
average rating for
2023
4.2
4.2
A remarkable achievement: raw and tender, and deeply humane.
I wanted to like this, yet the characters were hopelessly two-dimensional, the writing syrupy and full of cliches, and the plot predictable. The author’s skill simply did not live up to their ambition. Some parts of the book were better crafted than others, but the novel as a whole left me disappointed. The author’s idea of conveying the horrors of war by throwing as many descriptions of charred and dismembered bodies as possible at the reader st
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