Susan Kellam’s Reviews > Absolution > Status Update

Classic Alice: terse, finely drawn characters, stark setting. I liked this book quite a bit more than the No1 bestselling, The Women, by Kristin Hannah. I felt more authentically in Vietnam when absorbed in Absolution. The Women had the blood and bombs but not enough of what happens day to day. Both good books, just preferred the more subtle picture of Vietnam rather than all the noise.