A review by greenrain
A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier

5.0

I really liked this book. It hit on so many subjects that interest me like the individual aftermath of WW1, Pacific Northwest history, brave heroines, and of course the Spanish flu epidemic. Not anyone could weave this all together and create emotion and distress that feels so real. SPOILERS: For example, the love story didn't feel like something tacked on to attract the romance crowd, rather the characters had fleshed out backgrounds to build understanding and eventually love between them. The relationship was a bit rushed, but I completely believed two people would speed things along with their emotions running high from being surrounded by death, by not knowing if they were next to die.