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🌟BOOK REVIEW 🌟.
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▪️MY THOUGHTS
✔️I enjoyed this story, I thought it was a beautiful book about friendship, love and loss. It’s a short book but don’t let that fool you. It’s packed with a lot of emotion and heartache. At the beginning I found it a bit hard to follow along with the past and present - so I did have to re-read a few paragraphs.. However, after a while I became used to the flow of the story.

▪️OVERALL RUNDOWN
✔️Overall this was a good book full of so much emotion in just over 200 pages. I definitely think I will eventually need to re-read the book because there was just so much happening. Also the cover is gorgeous!! .
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▪️FAVOURITE QUOTE
✔️”There’s something about first love, isn’t there? She said. It’s untouchable to those who played no part in it. But it’s the measure of all that follows.”
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. ▪️TITLE RUNDOWN (My thoughts based on the title of the book)
Tragic
Intense
Naturally told story
Memorable
Amazing friendship
Need to re-read eventually .
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Tin Man is a quiet novel with a focus on character development. It is a love story but not a traditional one. It moves slowly but with a lot of depth, and while I found it hard to get into, it was also hard to let go of.

I can barely see through my tears. I am weeping uncontrollably. Sarah Winman is a gift to a reader.

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3.5 / 5

Tin Man came highly recommended from several of my colleagues and, while I enjoyed it, I just didn't love it as much as I was expecting.
Sarah Winman is a beautiful writer and Tin Man is a feast for the sense with the lovely descriptions of the English countryside and the South of France. I found that I didn't really connect with the style of storytelling (the storyline being somewhat all over the place) so it was, at times, hard for me to really get into the flow of the narrative. The lack of quotation marks was also something that bothered me (I find this annoying for some reason whenever I encounter this in a novel).
I think that this would be a fabulous book club pick because there are so many things to talk about and questions left unanswered. It definitely packs an emotional punch and makes the reader reminisce about first love.

Tin Man felt like a wisp of a novel. It gave me impressions and vague feelings and sensations but none of it felt...substantial. Everything about this book just felt so hazy: the writing, the characters, the story. I understand what Winman was going for when she chose to tell her story the way she did, but it just didn't click with me. It was all tell and no show, some characters thought about some sad things, and then before I knew it the book was over. I didn't get a feel for the characters or their relationships or their histories or anything. Not that Winman didn't try to give the reader any of that, it's just that she did it in such a flimsy way—none of it felt sturdy enough to sustain the story (something which definitely wasn't helped by the fact that this book is also very short). I wanted more from this, especially given that it deals with such heavy subject matter (e.g. the AIDS crisis).

Overall, there was nothing glaringly bad about Tin Man; it was just very lacking.

I did not like that there were no quotation marks at all in this short book. It was PDF and I could not open it on any program on my computer and the text was extremely small and frustrating to have to zoom in on every page on my phone or tablet so I read it on the kindle app which made the story sometimes confusing. However, I did enjoy this story more than I thought I would. I read Sarah Winman's other books and said that I liked them while I was reading them but forgot them immediately afterwards. But this one is going to stick with me. Ellis and Michael have such a strong, true connection that it is enviable. They, as well as Annie, really came to life. Their experiences were written in such great detail that they felt real. I could see everything as I was reading it. A really great story about living, love, loss and friendship that should make us grateful for the time we've shared with loved ones and for us to remember to enjoy the precious moments together with loved ones who are still here.