The Boy I Love
2005 • 276 pages

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15

This was disappointing. I was hoping for a bittersweet sordid romance with the tragedy of war as the backdrop but what this is is a group of young adults with no communication skills whining constantly about their post-war lives and finding solace in sleeping around with each other instead of actually talking. None of the characters had redeeming qualities and while this may be a pretty realistic view of 1910s small village Britain I just found it all rather boring.

January 7, 2021