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Title: There is a connection
Review: It has been quite a while since I read this book, which I found excellent and rivetting. The only reason that I did not give it 5 stars is a personal one: I like a book to have just a little more lightness in it, if only for the contrast (sort of the way the technique in painting of chiaroscuro emphasizes both light and darkness). However, that is just a personal thing, as I say, and it really should have...well, there isn't a 4 and 3/4 star category...There is a connection between the steamy sex in the book and the war. Aside from the fact that steamy sex is always a good read, I think the author intended it as metaphor: sex and death. However, this sex was somewhat depressing in its intensity, no doubt intended to parallel a very intense war. But that's why I choose to withhold my imaginary "quarter star."
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