This book loses a star for the wrap-up epilogue because that is how much I hate them. 
 This' one of those books (the second book in the series as well) that does historical fiction in a way that I really enjoy. Lots of other things are going on at the time so there's discussion of the issues of the day as well as everything else that's going on. It's also interesting to note the differences to how films and tv portray things (with Great Urgency where often armies take a little bit to end up doing anything so there might be a few weeks where nothing seems to be happening) and how a novel has the freedom to be like 'well they declared war but then nothing happened for awhile'. 
 The voices in this book were really great and the characters seemed very well fleshed out and because Sophie just kind of shrugged and was of the opinion that 'this is MY truth but it isn't THE truth' it makes her seem a very reliable narrator ironically enough. The ending felt a bit rough but endings are hard man.