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A review by amyapple
The Women by Kristin Hannah
3.0
3.5
The story read like a biography which was enjoyable to follow. Frankie’s starts off extremely naive and then war does its thing and she grew up very quick. Her character growth was what I did enjoy.
Considering it is fiction however, and not non fiction, I did find the plot a little lacking. The revelations as you read are quite predictable at many moment and most characters are fairly stock standard and following a stereotype. The last twist though - I did not see- and that rendered the book a bit better than a what it would have just been.
We move along quite quickly which was great and perhaps that’s where we lost the moments where Hannah could have delved deeper into the other characters and also paint a better picture of the war and not just a few mentions about bombs dropping. There were quite a number of ideas that could have been better fleshed out as well.
Hannah did bring some tears to my eye at a few certain parts of the book.
The story read like a biography which was enjoyable to follow. Frankie’s starts off extremely naive and then war does its thing and she grew up very quick. Her character growth was what I did enjoy.
Considering it is fiction however, and not non fiction, I did find the plot a little lacking. The revelations as you read are quite predictable at many moment and most characters are fairly stock standard and following a stereotype. The last twist though - I did not see- and that rendered the book a bit better than a what it would have just been.
We move along quite quickly which was great and perhaps that’s where we lost the moments where Hannah could have delved deeper into the other characters and also paint a better picture of the war and not just a few mentions about bombs dropping. There were quite a number of ideas that could have been better fleshed out as well.
Hannah did bring some tears to my eye at a few certain parts of the book.