Feeling very meh about this book. Kind of bitter that the synopsis basically tells the entire story and yet the story is almost nothing like the synopsis? This doesn't makes sense but it makes sense in my head.

I didn't mesh well with the writing at all. Didn't think it was anything special or unique and it's extremely hard for me to like a first person narrative. This was no different. It didn't help that the main character felt completely ridiculous and whiny and I just couldn't get behind her.

This book really was nothing like I expected. What I thought was going to be a deep book about loneliness and relationships ended up being a book with a creepy teacher and an annoying main character. Yes the synopsis says she finds comfort in a teacher but I somehow thought that the author would make some important narrative and statement with it. I don't even know what I was expecting but I should have known better. The synopsis makes it sound like the book was going to be all about their relationship but they're barely seen together besides a handful of parts. Which seeing what the book ended up being was a good thing I guess. I did DNF this with 50 pages to go so maybe something gets put in those that I didn't read but I doubt it.
Along with that the book is incredibly slow and hardly gets started until around the half way point. I also feel like this book hardly seems historical besides a few mentions of the war. This could have just as easily been put in a modern world with very few changes.

I'm just sad because I thought this was going to be really good book and have a deep message and narrative but just ended up being really shallow and boring.