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Title: Only the war part of "love and war" is interesting
Review: This book contains 3 virtually separate stories. The story of Stephen and his comrades-in-arms in the trenches and tunnels of WWI were intriguing, vivid and well-portrayed. The love story with Isabelle was stilted, not well thought out and frankly boring. The future glimpse of 1978 is even less interesting. Elizabeth's quest for her father's past is brief and dropped as quickly and inexplicably as it is begun. The quest for the past for this part of the story seems to be some sort of faulty segue into her own life which is, of course, in some sort of modern chaos. In short, 2/3 of the book could easily have been left out or severely shortened and the book would have been a much better read.
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