I think if I am telling the honest truth about Private Peaceful I think that this book is excruciatingly hard to read, because it is so utterly boring. It was only after the third chapter that I got into it.

Thomas Peaceful is a young private in the First World War. He talks sometimes about his life in the trenches and he flicks back now and again to his life back home with his dad and Big Joe. Thomas is a disillusioned boy who thinks that he was the killer of his father all the way through the story.

I think that if I were completely honest I’d say that this book should get 4 /10 because it does not have a particular ‘click’ to it. It seems as though it could be a book easily written, and it is pretty average.

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