Emily Kidd’s Reviews > Nostalgia > Status Update

I find Goodreads review length too short to be of much help.

Usually when I read I sequester myself and silently beg not to be interrupted, but many times throughout the course of this tale I have looked up, much like the caged animal used to describe the story's soldiers, and silently beg for relief.

but for some reason the words on McFarland's pages have acted like blinders until Walt suddenly and unceremoniously rips them away, much like a mother rents a sticky bandaid from a healing wound. Just as Summerfield feigns indifference to cope with his fear of the future, I write a [poor and incomplete] book review on the matter.

Update following the completion of ch 5 The final sentence in Walt's letter to Hayes finally revealed to me the reason behind the uneasiness I feel when reading this novel, fully explained why I am so caught up in the drama and yet reel from the horrors the main character daily faces. I knew this all along, and habitually tend to associate more and more with him and our conversations,

Update following the completion of ch 3 (bc I need to talk about it w/ somebody but nobody I know has read it
This book is good in a strange way; I can't tell if I like it or am just fascinated by it The overall writing style is mostly unfamiliar, slightly frustrating, but not extremely displeasing. Is the way the flashbacks are interwoven into the story, which is noncontinuous, the derivative of the novel's title?