She really said let me not just pull on her heartstrings but completely demolish them. I really love these characters and the general plot that Broadbent has written, but this book could have easily been split in half. The Big War Section was really such a small piece and so much of it was just glanced over, which I understand because it would have been repetitive and boring, but if we could have had a *bit* more direction with it...

I really liked Aefa's section and how it broke things up, but I immediately knew why we were getting it. A lot of my complaints (if you can call them that) is that I could see the whole shape of the plot very early on. And that a lot of that heartache felt like it was written just for the pain. She said "oh, I'll write this because it will hurt" rather than making the most sense.

All that and I still very much enjoyed this read and most of that came down to my enjoyment of the characters. I just like how Broadbent writes them. I'll be finishing this series whenever my library gets the final audiobook.