I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and did read it in about three sittings over a weekend. Great fictional entertainment. I found no fault with the characters, plot, or the room left at the last third of the book for the reader's interpretation of how emotion played out the final choices.
In fact that is what I believed was the saving grace of this story, the questions it did raise toward the conclusion-could Alice understand, identify, or acknowledge what 'love' is (due to her trauma and suffering)? When things 'changed' among the three at the end-who had the most strength in setting the path straight again? Does good EVER triumph over evil? Was the courtroom decision fair in both cases? What really happened to the baby, and was it Alice's fault?
The book also came together in a black and white manner of writing, it was so matter of fact, without exceptional drama or explanation of how a young girl could witness such horrors and continue on in life. It just-was. How people survived, how hunger and poverty paved the road of people's lives. How love, lust, and decisions plotted individual courses.
Great book. I did not read the first 'Widow's War' that apparently was written, as I did not even know about it until reading some of these reviews.
In fact that is what I believed was the saving grace of this story, the questions it did raise toward the conclusion-could Alice understand, identify, or acknowledge what 'love' is (due to her trauma and suffering)? When things 'changed' among the three at the end-who had the most strength in setting the path straight again? Does good EVER triumph over evil? Was the courtroom decision fair in both cases? What really happened to the baby, and was it Alice's fault?
The book also came together in a black and white manner of writing, it was so matter of fact, without exceptional drama or explanation of how a young girl could witness such horrors and continue on in life. It just-was. How people survived, how hunger and poverty paved the road of people's lives. How love, lust, and decisions plotted individual courses.
Great book. I did not read the first 'Widow's War' that apparently was written, as I did not even know about it until reading some of these reviews.
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