This was on my wish list for over a year but I found it at the library. I am so glad I didn’t buy this book.
I read up to chapter six and was very put off (for myriad reasons). I skimmed the rest of this but there was far too much of the following elements:
• This is torture porn. It seems like it’s trying to go for shock value. The events in this fictionalization did actually happen and to milk it for shock value just seems in poor taste.
• Overall, this story reads like a high school creative writing project. It’s too flowery and mawkish.
• These children read like 5/6 year olds. Not preteens.
• Parts of the dialogue were just embarrassing. For example, do we reckon that the children in Auschwitz called the gas chambers “cremos”? Because I highly bloody doubt that.
• It’s a chore to slog trough. Between the gruesome narrative, the overly flowery prose and the uninteresting characters, it felt like it took me ages to finish it (and believe me, I was gunning to be rid of it).
Holocaust books are “trendy” for some reason and books like this are proof that this is not a good thing. Get yourself a non-fiction book if you wish to learn more about these events. Stay away from rubbish like this.
Yuck.
I read up to chapter six and was very put off (for myriad reasons). I skimmed the rest of this but there was far too much of the following elements:
• This is torture porn. It seems like it’s trying to go for shock value. The events in this fictionalization did actually happen and to milk it for shock value just seems in poor taste.
• Overall, this story reads like a high school creative writing project. It’s too flowery and mawkish.
• These children read like 5/6 year olds. Not preteens.
• Parts of the dialogue were just embarrassing. For example, do we reckon that the children in Auschwitz called the gas chambers “cremos”? Because I highly bloody doubt that.
• It’s a chore to slog trough. Between the gruesome narrative, the overly flowery prose and the uninteresting characters, it felt like it took me ages to finish it (and believe me, I was gunning to be rid of it).
Holocaust books are “trendy” for some reason and books like this are proof that this is not a good thing. Get yourself a non-fiction book if you wish to learn more about these events. Stay away from rubbish like this.
Yuck.