Yellow
Birds
By: Kevin Powers
Genre: Adult fiction
Pages: 226
Published: 2012
Read: February
2 out of 5
This
novel reads more like nonfiction (my favorite aspect) as Private Bartle (21
years old) retells his experience in Iraq. The basis of the story is his friendship
and death of friend Private Murphy (18 years old) during the war; interspersed
with Bartle’s life after the war. I was hoping and expecting more exciting
details of his time in Iraq and the war, instead I felt it was drawn out and
repeated Bartle’s experiences in different words throughout each chapter. Also
the characters felt distant from the readers; however Powers writes well for
the readers’ enhancement of imagery on the war. So if you enjoy description of
surroundings and plot versus character development you may love this book.
NOTE:
Without ruining the end of novel, something happens that I have no idea what
lead to it. I may have just missed it, but I found it Very Frustrating!
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