Review of "The Rose of Sebastopol" by Katherine McMahon

Not completely sure about this one. I didn't enjoy it all that much. It was a bit dull some of the time, and I found myself grinding through it very slowly, which is never a good sign. Some of the writing felt very clunky, like it could have done with a further edit.

And yet I kept going, partly because I wanted to find out what happened to the characters, and along the way I found a lot that I hadn't known about Victorian medicine, and battlefield medicine (apparently the Russians invented triage), and about the Crimean War - I hadn't appreciated quite how bloody that was, almost like a trial run for WW1.