Review: Not easy to read but very good
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 24, 2014
This book is the first I've read by this author and it won't be the last. She writes extremely well and took me on an emotional rollercoaster of a journey. The h wasn't a particularly loveable character and I had a hard time with her. I think the author did a good job of helping me understand her and what she'd been through. If she hadn't been such a stubborn, contrary kind of person, she'd never have been able to do the things that she did. She was a nurse during the north/south war and had seen terrible things. She'd made meticulous notes of the dying words of soldiers and after the war she went on a mission to share their words with their loved ones. She meets the H along the way, whose son had also died in the war. Both of them had lost their spouses and were alone. The H decides to accompany the h on her journey and it is a bumpy ride. I used quite a few tissues during the course of the story. The author wrote very realistically about people's feelings after the war and about the war itself.I can recommend this book and intend reading more in this series.