Style
Booklist complimented how "Peet's plot is tightly constructed, and striking, descriptive language, full of metaphor, grounds the story." School Library Journal points out how "Peet deftly handles the developing intrigue that totally focuses readers". School Library Journal also compliments how Tamar is "masterfully crafted, written in cinematic prose, and peopled by well-drawn, multi-dimensional characters." In the novel New York Times Reviewer Elizabeth Devereaux praises how "Mal Peet shows both restraint and daring." Also, Booklist praised the novel's "intricate wrapping of wartime dramar and secrecy." Booklist Publications added to the praise by saying how "Strikingly edcriptive language grounds this dramatic novel." Kirkus Reviews called the writing "Beautifully detailed." Kirkus Reviews also complimented Tamar by commenting "Stark in its realistic portrayal of the horror and random violence of war escriptions of the daily brutality of merely surviving."
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