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If I could give this book a million stars, I would. Best book I have read in a very, very long time. The imagery captured made me feel as though I was in France and the battlefields of Germany. Unbelievable.
Very unsure of my feelings about this book. I really wanted to be awed by it (it did win the Pulitzer after all), and the writing was beautiful. However . . . the best books make it seem as if I were right there living the events with the characters, yet with this one I felt on the outside looking in, watching things unfold from afar. I liked Werner and Marie-Laure, the young protagonists, but there was a certain lacking of warmth in the overall tone of the book. It was like Anthony Doerr wanted
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It was very long, but very well written.
I gave it a 5 for how beautifully written it is and a 3 for how much I actually enjoyed it. So, a 4.
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