Title: I tried, but just couldn't give it that fifth star...
Product review: I wanted to love this book. I have heard about this book since I was a child, and I finally read it as an adult. I wanted desperatly to give this book a 5-star rating; however, in places, I found it predictable and just a little contrived. The 4-star rating I gave the book is certainly enough that I would without hesitation recommend it to other readers; it is still an excellent story of this turbulent time, and provides some disturbing food for thought about the effects the war had on individual people. Recommended for young and old alike.
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