Everyone Brave is Forgiven // book review

Remember my post recently about the Little Free Library?? Well! This very book was picked up from one of those!

My quick and to-the-point opinion on this book is that it was fairly good. There were times it was a little too slow for my liking though. Anything historical fiction tends to rank pretty high for me - but this one, (while in some ways fiction, was also is a bit true) I didn’t exactly LOVE it like I expected, it was still fairly good in my opinion. The author Chris Cleave based this book in part, on the love letters between his grandparents. Knowing that fact alone I felt pretty invested with this book before even opening the cover.

Cleave’s does a tremendously good job of making you feel like you are 100% there with the characters in this novel, their lives are your own along with their thoughts and feelings.

The ending wasn’t exactly what I saw coming, or maybe not exactly what I even wanted, but it was good all the same.

Some of my FAVORITE quotes from the book were —

• ”One knew how one felt only when things ended”……. I mean seriously, how smack-you-in-the-face-reality-check is that!?

• ”Whenever one thought about happiness, it was because it was wearing off” ……… another reality check. When you’re blissfully happy it’s rare that you take the time to really think about it. When it starts to fade, or goes away entirely, THAT’S when you notice it. Dang. Truth bombs.

I kinda recommend reading this!
3.5 STARS