One Was a Soldier Part II - the spoilery half of the review
This post contains spoilers for the entire book up to and including the last sentence, as well as some speculation about the future. Please don't read this if you haven't read the book and ever have any intention of doing so, which I obviously recommend (though you should read the series in order - trust me). This post is mostly for txduck :)
( You have been warned *ominous laugh* )
( You have been warned *ominous laugh* )
I totally had the same reaction of hmmm, I'm nearly halfway through and no one's dead yet... I even flipped to the front cover to make sure it was still referred to as a "Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery" ;) But I think the fact that the primary focus was on the vets' post-traumatic issues and readjustment really worked well.
I'm with you; I hope she doesn't skip over too much of the pregnancy. I guess the books generally do tend to have several months in between, but there was only like a month and a half in between To Darkness and to Death and All Mortal Flesh. We'll see.
My heart just ached for both Hadley and Kevin. But we did love all the years of Clare/Russ angst, and since they finally did get together, Hadley and Kevin are a way to keep the angsty elements without making Clare and Russ unrealistically and uncharacteristically dramatic. I mean, of course they'll have their tough times like everyone else, but now that they're married and having a child, I hope she'll let them be generally happy and not filled with the kind of heartbreak in the earlier books. I am anxious to see what happens next for everyone, and I hope Hadley and Kevin will get their turn for a happy ending someday.
Thanks again so much for recommending this series! Words fail to express how much I've loved reading it, and I'm already looking forward to re-reading it when the next book comes out!
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