pan⭐️⭐️ WWII fiction is just not my favorite. It‘s such an oversaturated market, and too many liberties and inconsistencies leave me craving nonfiction accounts. That said, Lale‘s survival story is indeed fascinating. It‘s unfortunate that Morris‘s basic writing style did not emotionally do it justice, desperately lacking description and character depth.
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Becker Same experience. I actually put it down after a few pages because the writing was not to my liking. But so many people have loved it so it must have a great story. 2d
britt_brooke @Becker That‘s the bummer about it. It‘s a great story and should be told, but this was the wrong style. Idk. It was very robotic. 2d
That-Bookish-Hiker I feel the same way about the writing but I loved the story so I gave it a 5 star review. I read the extra stuff in the back which added more to the story but it felt like it was more about the author‘s experience with Lale which disappointed me a little. 2d
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Cathythoughts I have not been drawn to this book... 2d
britt_brooke @That-Bookish-Hiker It is a great story, so I understand why you liked it. I was torn about the back stuff, too. 2d
britt_brooke @Cathythoughts I wasn‘t planning to read it, but some friends roped me into a book club. 😆 2d
ljuliel I think they‘ve about beat this topic to death in historical fiction in the past couple of years. Not that‘s it‘s not important to learn about, but there are other topics that could be of interest. There aren‘t very many on WW 1 , which is a shame. We need to learn more about it also. (edited) 2d
britt_brooke @ljuliel Yes, agree! 2d
JulAnna @ljuliel I agree wholeheartedly! Last year I did try to find some good historical fiction about WW1. One that I enjoyed was![[tagged book]](https://pics.cdn.librarything.com/pics/litsy_webpics/icon_taggedBook@3x.png)
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Birdsongbritt_brooke @JulAnna Thank you for the rec! 2d
KatieDid927 After public criticism about this work from the actual Auschwitz Museum themselves, it became clear that this is not a book I would ever read. 2d
britt_brooke @KatieDid927 Yep. That didn‘t help my mindset going in. I knew I wasn‘t going to like it. 2d
ljuliel @britt_brooke @JulAnna I read this one many years ago, and highly enjoyed it. Very little romance stuff, just the story of a soldier‘s different challenges throughout the war. It sounds boring, but it was very good, and almost adventuresome to some extent. Weird word for it, but it‘s hard to describe it. I thought it was highly interesting.A Soldier of the Great War (edited) 2d
A Soldier of the Great WarJulAnna @ljuliel thanks for the recommendation, it looks really interesting, stacked! 2d
britt_brooke @ljuliel Thanks for the rec! 2d
AmyK1 I felt the same way about this one. 2d
youneverarrived I didn‘t like it much either 🤷♀️ 1d
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