#10 General book review

My experiences with “A Separate Peace” are overwhelmingly positive.  I myself am generally a war novel fanatic anyways, but this novel in particular brings something a little more to the table.  Throughout reading this novel, I found myself having a special connection with Gene, almost as if I could relate to him.  Though I’m not in military school, I still feel like we have specific things in common.  Because of this connection with Gene, I enjoyed this book very much.  In my opinion however, some changes could have been made.  After Leper leaves, the reader pretty much never expects him to return to Devon.  However, Knowles decides to randomly insert him back onto the Devon campus for the the courtroom scene that would later occur.  I think Knowles could have done a little bit better of a job in bringing him back into the story.  For example, instead of Finny just randomly spotting him in some bushes after chapel, Leper could have sent another note to Gene asking him to sneak him back on campus.  He would of course have to smuggled in because of his section 8 discharge. Other than this minor flaw, I think that Knowles did an amazing job with his work and I thoroughly enjoyed every word of it.  I would recommend this novel to absolutely anyone.