Being completely honest, this book was nothing short of amazing! I would strongly suggest it if you wanted to know as much as possible about all of your favorite dinosaurs! In other words, I highly recommend this amazing book of dinosaurs. Any reader will greatly enjoy this book, and it is great for book reviews like this. So go ahead and read it! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
Wasn't quite sure how I felt about this book and only finished reading it because I *needed* to know. Then I quite liked the ending, it was mature and somewhat open but definitely a step in the right direction and the second I read the word epilogue I knew my joy had been premature.
Moriarty's strength is in the biting description of urban family life, so if you can't relate to it—raises hand—it's probably safer to stay away. Mysteries be damned.
The ending fell a bit flat for me. I understand why the author went there, but it did take something out from the joy I'd been having with this book. Other than that, I've been told this book is an accurate description of a certain way of life and I'm so glad I'm not part of it. Which is to say:
Tips!
Read this, if you don't plan on having kids or already have all the ones you're going to have.
Don't read this, if you're planning on having kids.
This one is the debut novel of the promising Finland-Swedish author Philip Teir. which has come out in English and German edition in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
The Winter War is the story of a Finnish couple in their late fifties and their two grown-up daughters. The father is a university professor approaching his sixtieth birthday and attracted to a young journalist, while the mother is an employee in human resources who is discontent with virtually everything in her life. The younger daughter is training to be an artist in London because she doesn't know anything better to do and the older daughter is a teacher who questions her choice of life. In a nutshell: they all have their problems that make the long dark winter even more gloomy so it turns into a war at last.
Read the long review on my main book blog Edith's Miscellany.
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