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booksandlists's review against another edition
Was not interested enough to follow along, or to want to keep listening.
rosewriter13's review against another edition
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
3.5
izzys_internet_bookshelf's review against another edition
2.0
2/5
I always love to read history books but for some reason I found this one a little hard to follow along. At first I thought it was multiple POVs but it wasn't. The plot itself was promising but, I just felt like it went really fast, but slow at the same time when it came to my interest in reading it.
I always love to read history books but for some reason I found this one a little hard to follow along. At first I thought it was multiple POVs but it wasn't. The plot itself was promising but, I just felt like it went really fast, but slow at the same time when it came to my interest in reading it.
steph01924's review against another edition
5.0
Traitor is beautifully written and richly complex, set in a time and place in WWII that I've never personally read about before. It was so engaging I ended up reading it in one sitting. Check out my full review on Forever Young Adult.
solafide's review against another edition
4.0
The first time I read this book I gave it two stars. However, I just reread it and gave it four instead.
The characters have my heart, also the ending shocked me. For being a reread I didn’t expect anything that happened.
The story went back and forth between two POVs. One in present and one in the past.
For being a ww2 historical fiction, it’s a side of history that not many authors choose to write on. It focuses on the UPA and NKVD, as well as the poles.
Language: low/medium, says the H word many times, but the rest of swearing is in polish or Ukrainian
Romance: mentioned about two characters kissing as a passing fact, minor flirting, otherwise low
Violence: medium, shooting, mass killing, a few in depth inspections of wounds (however for a war book it’s not too intense)
The characters have my heart, also the ending shocked me. For being a reread I didn’t expect anything that happened.
The story went back and forth between two POVs. One in present and one in the past.
For being a ww2 historical fiction, it’s a side of history that not many authors choose to write on. It focuses on the UPA and NKVD, as well as the poles.
Language: low/medium, says the H word many times, but the rest of swearing is in polish or Ukrainian
Romance: mentioned about two characters kissing as a passing fact, minor flirting, otherwise low
Violence: medium, shooting, mass killing, a few in depth inspections of wounds (however for a war book it’s not too intense)
cocoanut7's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
I really wanted to like this more than I did. I think the flow of the story struggled. Time jumped around too much and there wasn’t time to attach to our characters between jumps. It made it too confusing. Not the author’s fault, but all the acronym and different organizations made it hard for me to follow. The point is that everyone thought they were right but I didn’t have enough context to see the complexities. I was too busy trying to figure out who belonged where and why. This time period is also nuts and I think it’s important we learn more about ww2 from other experiences. So horrific.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Torture