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cemoses's review against another edition
3.0
The book held my interest but I felt the character development was lacking. It the book can be morbid with the reasons not having to do with WWII.
library_brandy's review
3.0
This has been on my to-read list for years. Now that I've finally read it.. meh. I wanted something more from it. More depth of character, maybe, more interesting plot?
martialia's review
3.0
Such conflict recently over how to rate the books I read. So...for about 2/3 + of this quirky little story, set against the back drop of the pain of WWII, I was finding interest in the lives of the characters. At this point a mystery was finally brought out to the light and I was ready to say the book had moved from moderately good to better...and then the ending. I was devastated by the ending, strangely all of the main characters ended in a way I was unhappy with despite perhaps happiness for the first time for one, maybe two, of them. I was sorry that only a side character was left standing clear for me as a likable person. This is most certainly a deeply observant work, with sharply defined characters and unsparing observations, which took me in emotionally...I just wouldn't say wonderfully.
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