This book was a little bit jarring just because I expected it to be from the perspective of Michael and about the boys again, but they play a very small role. Like it's still a fantastic book (obviously, I gave it 5 stars), it just took me sometime to adjust. I feel like maybe the synopsis was a little bit misleading in that regard.

But once I got over that, this book was fantastic. We're following Rebecca who's a nurse at the rear and mistakenly winds up on her own in the jungle. She's such a wonderful character and I adore her perspective. She's so fake cheerful for the people around her, but the trauma she witnesses every day leaves a huge impact.

This book, once again, made me cry, so Ellen Emerson White is three for three here. Apparently, Rebecca is also the main character of The Road Home so I am especially stoked for that now.

I continue to highly recommend this series because it's probably my favorite thing that I've read all year.

This is Rebecca's backstory, what you miss in [b:The Road Home|247962|The Road Home (Echo Company, #5)|Ellen Emerson White|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1173116527s/247962.jpg|1410018]. Solid characters in an untenable situation, doing the best they can. So achingly true, so well written. I need to have this whole series of books. They surely do pass the 3 a.m. test.

Rebecca is such a wonderful person, complicated and fierce and devoted and broken. I think there needs to be a sixth book. And maybe a seventh.