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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

52 reviews

akizato's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Xenophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Antisemitism, and Death

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Police brutality, and Genocide

Minor: Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, War, and Alcoholism

gh1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, Death, Genocide, Grief, Physical abuse, War, Violence, and Antisemitism

Moderate: Abandonment, Fire/Fire injury, Gun violence, Hate crime, and Torture

Minor: Death of parent, Classism, Medical trauma, Self harm, Alcohol, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, Medical content, and Suicide

a_d_maillet's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Classism, Death of parent, Genocide, Slavery, War, Child death, Death, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Grief

donatio's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I feel like this book has a good way to tell the things that happened during the Second World War without getting too much into detail, making it a great introduction into the topic of deportation, etc. It's easy to follow the story and also the message. 
I loved the writing style and the short stories that actually make up the book as well as the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Medical content, Abandonment, Bullying, and Death

Minor: Death of parent, Grief, Genocide, Violence, Suicide, Deportation, and War

crazycatlady472's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Gun violence, Blood, Bullying, and Child death

freppy's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

The story of a young girl, a step family, and their community inside Nazi Germany brings a context and perspective that tells a powerful story. From the narrator to the structure, it is theatrical in nature, which took me a moment to warm up to, but I was drawn in chapter by chapter, and am so glad I finally met these characters and this story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Death

siennabea's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved this book. I just want to start this review by saying that this was a page turner. By that I mean I was never bored, never counting the pages until the chapter ended and never really wanting it to stop.  It was  just so enticing and beautiful, with so much warmth and life but also the devastation and hopelessness of war. The author( Markus Zusak) has such an unbelievably beautiful and raw writing style that I could practically see the whole plot in my mind. 
Plot wise there isn't really much to say as there wasn't really a specific plot, much like real life. Overall though, just watching how every character grew and opened up was stunning. There wasn't one character I didn't like. I loved how not everything worked out, and how not everything was in the main characters favour.
Overall I really am not doing this book justice, I just can't explain what an experience this book was. Please do read!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Death, and Grief

Minor: Bullying and Cursing

abbyluvsfrogs444's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

"It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding." 

Wow. That was a life-changing book. That was so sad. I am so glad that I read it, though. This is one of those books that is becoming a modern classic and everyone knows about it. And it definitely deserves that classic status. What a read. What a sad yet beautiful story. I love this book. But I'll probably never read it again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Bullying, War, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Antisemitism, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Cursing, Suicide, Car accident, and Confinement

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Death of parent, Mental illness, Deportation, Genocide, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Xenophobia, Death, Child death, Sexism, and War

Moderate: Car accident, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Bullying, Medical content, Misogyny, Racism, Domestic abuse, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, and Physical abuse

kade_s's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Grief, War, Death, Child death, Death of parent, Antisemitism, and Hate crime

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Racism, Suicide, Car accident, and Child abuse

Minor: Bullying