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A review by guybrush
A Motherland's Daughter, A Fatherland's Son by Ellie Midwood
3.0
Excellent story, but too gruesome
The writing is very good, the plot and pacing are perfect, the details are engrossing ... but I spent most of this book cringing because if the horrors described. I was looking for historical fiction, or a romance, or a sweeping epic ... not a depiction of why war is hell.
I appreciate why the author did this, to illustrate the contrast and the journey, but it was too much for me.
The writing is very good, the plot and pacing are perfect, the details are engrossing ... but I spent most of this book cringing because if the horrors described. I was looking for historical fiction, or a romance, or a sweeping epic ... not a depiction of why war is hell.
I appreciate why the author did this, to illustrate the contrast and the journey, but it was too much for me.