Everyone seems to rave about The Women, and I really wanted to love it. Unpopular opinion, I did not.
I appreciated learning more about the Vietnam War, particularly the fact that the women, especially nurses, who served there were largely unrecognised on their return. That aspect felt important and overdue.
That said, while the novel is fiction rooted in real events, it never quite landed for me emotionally. I admired what it was trying to do more than I actually felt it.
It is a good book, just not a great one for me.
At a push, 3.5 out of 5.
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