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Band Of Angels (2010)

by Julia Gregson(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1439101132 (ISBN13: 9781439101131)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Touchstone Books

review 1: I didn't expected many things from this book even if it's about a country area which is famous these days, Crimea. Welsh girl loves a wild welsh boy (a fade type of Catherine and Heathcliff from Weathering Heights) and she chooses to become one of the first nurses to find herself and he follows her. The place and the characters also reminded me Paulina Simmon's the Bronze Horseman, especially Catherine Carreg's terrible situations. It's well written book, even the miserable death scenes of war. Florence Nightingale is described as a sharp organized person who had no idea for nursing, she goes to Crimea and in the horror of blood, dirt and rotten flesh she manoevres nattily in her exctremely clean black dress with its bright white lace collar... It was so many the pages... more where the despare and horror were described that I lost the whole story, only a few pages before the end I remembered that there was a love story and finally a happy end (even for most of the horses) which was logic, not suddenly happy faces everywhere, that compensated me for the long belly of horror in the middle of the novel.
review 2: A fine historical fiction set in the 1850s, primarily in the region of the Crimean War. The book shows a sickenly brutal war in which it is amazing that anyone survived typhus, cholera, septic wounds, hunger and freezing. The book shows a casual disregard and abuse of common soldiers and horses, not to mention the women, who have no position and can be used and abused at the whim of men and society. This all makes the book sound darker than it is, but it does show a particularly serious attitude towards all events. If the portrayal of Florence Nightingale is even half accurate, she was quite a piece of work, a right tartar. The early parts, set in Wales, are reminiscent of the Poldark series by Winston Graham set in Cornwall around 1800. less

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