I think I am very stingy with my 5 out of 5 stars.. a 4 is really rock solid entertaining read, and a 3 is a good read. 2s are very average, and 1 I likely flung across the room and refused to finish.
Another different take on WWI. Life is about stories, and the more you read, the more you appreciate how many different sides there, especially when you think about sweeping historical movements.
This has a bit of a gothic feel in the sense it is very well written, and there are unhappy ghosts. It feels a bit like a Kate Morton book, however, the pages do turn a bit more quickly. I enjoyed it, but I can't say that I thoroughly loved it. This is a glimpse in to the lives of the broken men after the war(s) and the people who made a business out of taking care of them. It raises interesting thoughts about what society was like after each war, and how the men that survived were changed a result. We all know our grandparents didn't want to talk about those years, however, books like this help you appreciate the horrors a little more, even if this book isn't about the war per say. This also describes a time of flux - where the rules were changing, just before the depression, and during a time where good help was truly hard to find, and not everyone could deal with the realities of caring for people how had seen truly the depths of human depravity. Interesting.
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