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geminipenguin's review
4.0
I'll get two things out of the way right from the start. The first - this only has four stars because the style (formatting?) of the story. Seriously, dialogue tags are a must and so are quotation marks. The lack of these made this book difficult to read.
Secondly this book is a haunting fictionalized account of true events. It's a large book and I read the English translation, but the stories inside are just haunting. They're beautifully told and have tons of intriguing and haunting lines.
I wish I would've chosen a time when we weren't under a pandemic to read this, though. I read this book as part of #Quarantinathon.
Secondly this book is a haunting fictionalized account of true events. It's a large book and I read the English translation, but the stories inside are just haunting. They're beautifully told and have tons of intriguing and haunting lines.
I wish I would've chosen a time when we weren't under a pandemic to read this, though. I read this book as part of #Quarantinathon.
abookishtype's review
4.0
Steven Sem-Sandberg’s The Chosen Ones (translated by Anna Paterson) is a difficult book to read. First, there is the subject matter. Even though The Chosen Ones is a novel, it is closely based on the actual history of the victims and perpetrators of Aktion T4, the Nazi euthanasia program for people designated “unworthy of life.” Second, the style of the book—dense paragraphs that read like nonfiction more often than not—is relentless. I never got a break from the details of Aktion T4 and its effects on the children that got caught up in its monstrous betrayal of everything medicine is supposed to stand for...
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.
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