Interesting and thought provoking. Pretty different read for me. I don’t typically read about war because it’s almost always tropey. This, however, was anything but. It grows more complex and interesting as you go on, and the final chapter was really great. The story feels like it’s morphing and so different and that makes you look harder for the answer. I enjoyed that a lot.

The only thing I disliked, which unfortunately needled me constantly, was the repetition of information already given to the reader. It creates a unique cadence but it’s really annoying retreading so much ground, especially in the first half. Just constantly circling the exact same thing that happened. Not in a new way either. Just exactly the same thought in the way that telling a story form memory sometimes will do. But just like with dialogue, the reader doesn’t need that aspect to understand; or I feel I don’t anyway. Ultra Realism is not a particular quality I like in dialogue, nor other aspects of fiction. We decide what we look at in a scene with intentionality, so it bugged me a lot. Otherwise it’d probably have been a 5 star read or a 4.5 rounded up.