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Feb 11, 2024Readmandan rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Loved it!
Feb 07, 2024RPLpatron rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent read. Intense story of WWII.
Jan 24, 2024Ernie Graves rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This is an awesome book. It's definitely in my all-time top 10. It gets pretty suspenseful as it approaches the end, and I finished the last 100 pages or so in one sitting. I especially enjoyed how he took the characters into the distant…
Dec 15, 2023
GPL Teen Book Reviewer - Edison The book is about two people during WW2 in Europe. Werner Pfennig, a boy in Germany is very good with fixing things like radios, he joins the German army to help track down the resistance. Marie Laure, a…
Dec 13, 2023Jenni092 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I understand why it is so long however I gave it a lower score because it takes a very long time to really pick up Pace
Dec 10, 2023munchy70 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This easily is my favorite read of 2023. Glad to have stumbled on this before the Netflix series Beautifully written. Gives hope that there is good in the world even when surrounded by darkness and evil
Nov 29, 2023ArapahoeJulieH rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Unlike other World War II historical fiction, this captivating narrative is crafted in hauntingly beautiful prose and vivid metaphors that paint stunning images. Redemption in the midst of evil. I was riveted from start to finish and…
Nov 25, 2023Einer2 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Historical fiction at it's best.
Nov 19, 2023
I completed this book on 8/10/2017 (I started using this way to record books completed in 2018).
Nov 09, 2023plausible rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
As a Pulitzer Prize literature piece, this novel is vividly rich in description exploiting one’s imagination unlike anything I can recall reading or researched from 54 books so far this year or beyond. An entire world of things. And always…
Nov 03, 2023
Now the Netflix series.
Oct 27, 2023Olala1707 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Amazing book, unforgettable. Itmay feel a little slow in the beginning but then action starts moving faster and faster. 6 stars!
Sep 24, 2023Evelyn_b0Ok_Reviews rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5 Stars "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦, 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯, 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘧𝘭𝘰𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘬𝘶𝘭𝘭,…
Sep 08, 2023512cadcock_0 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This was a great piece of historical fiction. It is not a chick lit beach read with the rosy ending that gets spoon fed to you in perfect little bites. It is a book for people who like depth and real characters and can follow a story from…
Aug 28, 2023rnash115 rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I used to feel the need to finish every book I started... until this book. I found myself continuously yawning every time I read it and I wasn't excited to pick it back up. I gave it 100 pages because it's a Pulitzer Prize winner, but then…
Aug 26, 2023Egretta_alba rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
This was the only book I stopped and couldn't finish reading of this past year (reading 1-2 books per week). I just couldn't get past the writing style. It was composed of short, choppy sentences (not really even sentences), sometimes…
Jul 27, 2023PHWess rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
First you must remember V-E ( victory in Europe)day was May 8, 1945. Then get out a bunch of bookmarks, paper clips or post-it notes because he goes back and forth in time in a confusing way. I liked "Crawdads" but not this.
Jul 01, 2023CareyMacaulay rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I loved this book! I loved the story. I loved the writing. I loved the characters -- those who will break your heart, those who are evil, those who are flawed, those who are heroic, those who are selfish, those who are just surviving. I…
May 16, 2023sjarrell0 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
6 stars. Reading once will never be good enough. I will go back through and find every moment that made me cry and sit wide eyed in awe. But for now my heart hurts and I am plagued by overthinking. Written with purposeful complexity and…
May 15, 2023swhitacre1 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I'm so glad I read this book despite some of the reviews. You have to think a lot while reading this book because of the complex characters and storyline, but it kept me incredibly engaged. This book has received prizes and recognition for…
Apr 14, 2023Jenkskitten rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Completely disjointed story of about 5 characters with 2 of them being the main characters. Lots of thinking, rationalizing, observations and recalls go on. I did not like the jumping back and forth between different time periods of the…
Mar 15, 2023LESeymour rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
This wasn't my style of book. A ton of little stories and then putting them in a book. A format I can never stick to.
Feb 27, 2023Griffeth rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Set in various locations during the build-up and end of World War II, this book is told in alternative narrative voices. One belongs to Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and the other to Werner, a young German boy with a talent for…
Feb 19, 2023PatEe rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Although the story is beautifully written, poetic and magical, I was extremely disappointed with the ending. It dragged on and on with people having dreams and visions and then fell completely flat. It fizzled out to a big so what. You…
Feb 18, 2023johnjamison rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I wasn’t sure about this book but it grabbed me and pulled me along….. they say a serial is coming on Netflix …… don’t expect it to be able to pick up the sweep of the novel…