784 reviews for:

The Librarian of Burned Books

Brianna Labuskes

4.01 AVERAGE

brittanyharrell1369's review

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring fast-paced

christymaurer's review

4.25

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Absolutely chilling how this parallels trump & his nazis today

alyssa_elbridge's review

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kim_lommaert's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional informative tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, War

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Lesbophobia, Toxic friendship, Deportation

Minor: Sexual content, Suicide

applejacksbooks's review against another edition

3.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

hannahbelle20's review

4.0

emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

lisaisaann444's review

4.25

challenging reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

s_gorski's review

4.0

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There is not a lot of excitement in this book, it took me a while to get into the book. However, the message feels very important given our current political landscape. As my local library faces closing because short sighted people want to ban books on LGBTQ topics, the message of this book rings very true to me. Two of my favorite quotes from this book capture that sentiment so well: “an attack on books, on rationality, on knowledge isn’t a tempest in a teacup, but rather a canary dead in a coal mine “ and “banning books, burning books, blocking books is often used as a way to erase people, a belief system, a culture.”

christineehm's review

3.0

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This just felt so obvious. From the first few chapters you knew everything that would happen throughout the story, which was a huge bummer since I like the format of this novel. We follow three women during three different points in their lives as they live with the effects of World War II. But the “foreshadowing” was so extreme that you really can’t even call it that.

To have true surprises as these stories develop would have been delightful, but there was absolutely not a single moment of subtlety. No thanks.

audratk's review

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective 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: Complicated