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Birdsong is certainly unique, but it ultimately didn’t come together.

The book opens in 1910, and, Who-ee! is it steamy. Then, the book transitions to World War I. Personally, I haven’t seen any war books this steamy, and I was intrigued how the narrative would unfold.

But, sadly, I was disappointed. First, the author just dropped the steamy plotline. Second, the World War I bit had such wasted potential. The book explores the experience of men who tunneled during the war. This is beyond the traditional trench warfare—these men were digging deep underground to listen for any sign of enemy movement. Uh uh. You couldn’t pay me enough money to go into those dark death holes. No way. No thank you.

But the author didn’t know how to leverage these creepy, spooky, dangerous vibes. He needed to read Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad.

And the book is slow. I mean S-L-O-W. When I tried to find an audiobook for this book, I kept running into an abridged version which looks like 60% of the book was cut.

That tells you everything you need to know right there. When 60% of the book is cut, it isn’t good.

The ending was just plain odd. Elizabeth seems to come out of a coma and suddenly realized that World War I happened despite being nearly 40 years old and living in Europe. Apparently, she missed all of the war monuments for decades. The very end of the book was so unbelievable that it was almost laughable.

Birdsong has some flickers of brilliance, but it is bogged down by the ever-so slow placing.

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