Marissa

I wanted to like this book so badly. I can get behind flowery language, I did like several of the letters, but everything in between made no sense. This was a no plot just vibes book but in a negative sense. There was no context to make me feel for the characters, understand the war, understand why the they in particular were in it. It just didn't hit for me, sad to say.

I wanted to like this SOOOO bad it just didn't do it for me I'm sorry

She did an excellent job don't get me wrong, but it's so so hard for me to give memoirs high stars when the person is so young. There didn't feel like there was level of healing and introspection necessary for a fully mature memoir here, it felt unfinished. I could never think to write a memoir right now in my life even though I've done so much because there's still so much to learn and there's so much growing to do. I think this would've been better in 15-20 years.

Good, enjoyable, not overly memorable to me

I really enjoyed this. I don't think there was truly enough intersectionality + look at this from a feminist lens because I'm sure there were pleanty of women involved in both sides, but you can't win em all. For what this was I thought it was a very interesting listen