A review by michaelgreenreads
Fear: A Novel of World War I by Imrie Malcolm, Gabriel Chevallier, John Berger

dark reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Unsettling you is one of the best gifts a book can provide and FEAR is brutally honest in its intentions to do so. Chevallier lays out the experience of being an angry young French WW1 soldier who faces multiple years in a muddy hell. I love getting perspectives from the past that challenge the narratives I was taught my entire life and this book DELIVERED a range of perspectives.

I know a lot of people who would be better off reading this book than daydreaming up ways they would have ran around as the protagonist of WW1 (never imagining their own death or being one of the 10,000 soldiers that die in a hour.)
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