**1/2
PG-13
{SM} a little {TMP}
Could Probably Recommend But Probably Won't
This review will probably be a bit more thorough than usual because I feel there's quite a bit of explaining needed.
I had read an amazing review about this book a while back and mentally noted that I really wanted to read it at some point based on that recommendation.
I went ahead and purchased it and stuck it in my TBR pile. I was super excited to get to it and started with high anticipation. It wasn't as exciting as I had expected in the beginning. I kept thinking things would pick up and get interesting but I was crawling through it without things getting any better.
I did have a couple of things I wanted to make note of for rating purposes.
I gave the rating of {Subject Matter} for a couple of different reasons. As the author states up front (which I very much appreciated) "The following novel contains depictions of warfare, war injuries, disease, miscarriage, kidnapping, off-page sexual assault, executions and implied intimacy between married couples." That pretty much sums it up.
I did feel that one or two kissing scenes went a little beyond what I prefer so I went ahead and gave it a mild {Too Much Passion}.
For me, the first 2/3 of the book was too much political and warfare detail, and frankly, I couldn't follow it all the time. However, the last 100 pages took a turn and almost made up for the rest of it. Things started getting really exciting and dramatic and I sped through to the end.
Overall, I gave it just 2.5 stars because of the slow beginning and middle and probably won't be recommending it either for the same reason. This was very disappointing to me because of the glowing review I had read 😞
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