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myrtevh's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.5
bergenslabben's review against another edition
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
chaoticbibliophile's review against another edition
This is a very interesting book and it's very well done; I love the art style and the focus on archival material and memory... but I just don't want to read it, and it's making me not read other graphic nonfiction and novels I really want to get to. I think part of it is the subject matter: I simply am not interested in WW2-related topics, save very specific exceptions. To be fair, this would have been one of those exceptions, but I do feel the structure lags in places. There're multiple strands of narrative and the way they are interwoven can be quite uneven at times.
I would definitely recommend this if it sounds like your thing, but also do believe it could've been better edited.
I would definitely recommend this if it sounds like your thing, but also do believe it could've been better edited.
bookishly_laura9813's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
ensara's review
Unfortunately, I didn't love this as much as my classmates did. Germany, Germany.
courtneyjane's review
2.0
Had a think and changed this to 2 stars. I wanted to love this graphic novel, the art style was really striking and fun but idk it just sucked?
I appreciate the perspective that she was trying to show. It is heartbreaking that there are no real good or bad guys in war when it comes to young men being forced to fight for ideologies that they might not even understand.
But it wasn't done well... came across as very whiney. And the only time Jewish people made an appearance were in an attempt for her to somehow validate that her family members were not "that bad" of Nazis....
Doesn't take a genius to see why that's problematic AF.
I appreciate the perspective that she was trying to show. It is heartbreaking that there are no real good or bad guys in war when it comes to young men being forced to fight for ideologies that they might not even understand.
But it wasn't done well... came across as very whiney. And the only time Jewish people made an appearance were in an attempt for her to somehow validate that her family members were not "that bad" of Nazis....
Doesn't take a genius to see why that's problematic AF.
mehsi's review against another edition
2.0
I wasn't sure what I expected, but definitely less walls of text and more illustrations/photographs. Plus it was quite annoying that images broke up the texts sometimes, but other times they didn't. I am reminded once again why I never read books about family histories, because they are dreadfully boring. The only thing that kept me going was that this book's history part took place in WWII, which is a topic I am very much interested in. I also liked the various items of German making that she found. I also wasn't all too excited about the constant need of the girl to apologise for anything and everything Germany did. I get that you feel bad about what your country did, but it was just weird seeing her apologise for it. And one time she even made a comment that she went to meetings of Jewish people and hoped to be adopted as the granddaughter... whut?
emzapk's review
5.0
Unusual, unique, and thought-provoking. A constant war between pausing my reading to ponder and continuing on to find out what else the author discovered.