Review: All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
FIVE FANTASTIC STARS. The tale of two teenagers (blind Marie-Laure of Nazi-occupied France, and German Werner, a radio technology prodigy) trying to make it through the chaos of World War II.
"So many windows are dark. It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished...But there is a machine in the attic at work again. A spark in the night."
I don’t know what I could ever write that could ever do justice to the masterpiece that is this book.
So raw, so honest, so beautiful and real. I’ve never experienced war, but I felt that this book was very realistic (and unapologetic) in its portrayal of wartime and its effects on people and their lives. This book dares to emphasize the fact that, no, you don’t know what happens to everyone in the end. Not everything is resolved. Closure is not something life owes you; closure does not always exist.
Everyone was hurt. Even those who did not deserve it. Everyone felt loss, on both sides of the conflict. The ending is painful, heart-wrenching, and both unfulfilling and perfect at the same time. It is like real life. There is goodness where you are sure no goodness should have been able to survive, and there is also atrocity. I will be contemplating what I have read and gained from this book, for a long time to come.
P.S. JUTTA AND FREDERICK WERE MY FAVORITES AND AS SUCH THEIR STORIES HURT ME THE WORST. (I cannot say more.)
Check me out on Goodreads @ goodreads.com/hattiejean for many more (usually short & sweet) reviews!
"So many windows are dark. It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished...But there is a machine in the attic at work again. A spark in the night."
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I don’t know what I could ever write that could ever do justice to the masterpiece that is this book.
So raw, so honest, so beautiful and real. I’ve never experienced war, but I felt that this book was very realistic (and unapologetic) in its portrayal of wartime and its effects on people and their lives. This book dares to emphasize the fact that, no, you don’t know what happens to everyone in the end. Not everything is resolved. Closure is not something life owes you; closure does not always exist.
Everyone was hurt. Even those who did not deserve it. Everyone felt loss, on both sides of the conflict. The ending is painful, heart-wrenching, and both unfulfilling and perfect at the same time. It is like real life. There is goodness where you are sure no goodness should have been able to survive, and there is also atrocity. I will be contemplating what I have read and gained from this book, for a long time to come.
P.S. JUTTA AND FREDERICK WERE MY FAVORITES AND AS SUCH THEIR STORIES HURT ME THE WORST. (I cannot say more.)
Check me out on Goodreads @ goodreads.com/hattiejean for many more (usually short & sweet) reviews!
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