Today's prompt: A book that makes you sad
I'm going to go with Markus Zusak's The Book Thief. It is always an experience. I don't think I can improve upon my last review:
The Book Thief leaves me speechless. If humans leave Death, the narrator, feeling haunted, I can say the same of the narrator. Could a book have a better narrator? I doubt it. There is something so perfectly-perfectly-perfect about The Book Thief. It is beautiful and brilliant; absorbing and compelling. It goes ugly places, to be sure, but the language, the style, just can't be beat. I mean this is a novel that wows and amazes. The characters are so real, so vivid. I mean these characters are very real, very human, very flawed, but the connection is so intense.
I don't love it because it's an easy read. I don't love it because it's a happy, happy novel. I love it because it is beautiful, haunting, ugly, yet hopeful.
© 2016 Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews
2 comments:
I still have not finished this book... One day it will click!
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