Decided to pick this one up because a) heard so many good things about it and b) it’s been on my TBR for years! Here are my thoughts, and I hope I’m not alone…
Ugh, I wanted to like this one so bad. I will say, I thought the writing was very good and enjoyed the short chapters which helped give it pace for me (I’m a slow reader with a bad attention span).
I thought I finished the book feeling very unsatisfied, while at the same time looking forward to the book to end. I thought the climax of the individual stories fell flat and was hoping for some resolution. For example, in just one sentence of the book we finally hear what happened to Marie-Laure’s dad…and that was it. Moved on like it was nothing.
Even Werner and Marie-Laure lives finally intersecting, only having it last a mere 12 hours before they separate.
Or the stone. I thought there would be more significance to it in the end but…nothing really.
I don’t know, maybe I’m misinterpreting everything, but I just felt super underwhelmed finishing it. Jealous of those who got to enjoy it though!
by Dadbat69
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Me too. Typically I’m a big fan of WWII historical fiction so I was expecting to like it very much and was quite surprised when I thought, “Well, that was OK” upon finishing.