Dmytro

Witcher, who forgot everything, tried to figure out the world and herself.

The Children's Crusade by Rebecca Brown is a short, quiet novel following an unnamed girl through five stages of her parents' divorce and the loss of her brother Sten. It's a difficult read — not because it's long, but because Brown explains almost nothing, leaving you to piece things together yourself. The writing is spare and sometimes hypnotic, and the final image of the girl writing a letter to her absent brother while already vowing never to let her own future children tear her apart is genuinely sad and stays with you. It's a thoughtful, honest little book, but it keeps you at a distance the whole time — and its meaning only really settles after you've sat with it a while.

I liked to see familiar names of towns. But still made me sad. The perspective of a war surgeon shows not only war from a first-person point of view but also a bit broader.

It was a bit more boring, and the plot for me was harder to follow than other books.

Bittersweet with finish scent