This book has a slow start but don’t let that get in the way of how the story takes off from there. This book is about WWI, but is not all in truth about how they fight and what they fight with. I loved this book it makes me want to read the rest of the trilogy and actually read again. This book makes you feel what the characters feel, and it takes you into the story, so that you feel like you read for maybe half an hour, but you actually read for two hours.