Winter War

Have you ever imagined a book with everything a book needs that you can’t set it down? Winter war by “William Durbin” is that book. It has ever thing to make it a once in a life time book. This book is based on a true story about the desperate need for a country to prove itself to the world through the eyes of one child, Marko.

The only thing that the author could have done better was make the story a little longer it was a little short for a war with a country in dire need. A few more things he could have done are, use more vocabulary and shorter sentences. The reason for the sentences was because he had way to many run on that never ended. Like this one Chapter 11 first sentence. “Marko lay in the dark tent, half awake, thinking back on a hot June day when he and Johan had gone bog walking through a swamp north of his grandma’s farm, he wished that he could do that again, but never will he”. The vocabulary is on there because during this sentence he says 2 descriptive words and both were simplest vocabulary when he could have used better words.

Although there were these negative choices in his vocabulary that Durbin could have fixed there were a million more good choices that took this book to the top even though this book was based of a true story Durbin made it worth reading. Usually I hate reading history. My favorite part of the story was when the snipers came back naked on skies in the winter because they were taking a sauna on break and the enemy found them and chased them back. That surprised me completely I did not with the slights thought that that would happen.

This is mostly because of the surprises that they throw at you witch make it unpredictable, and when your story is unpredictable why not turn the page. This book, reminds me of my favorite series” Alex rider”. The main reason that this book reminds me of the Alex rider series is how the story ended. They did not just drop it off a cliff and say the end, the authors made a puzzle and one thing missing and then you understand it all and put the last piece in, but all of a sudden you’re missing another piece and they let you create the end. This book, Winter War by “William Durbin” Is a once in a lifetime book and has everything it needs to make it a great.