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luce219's review against another edition
5.0
amazing, stunning, haunting-- I loved this book!!! I believe it is actually considered a "young adult" novel, but I'm not sure why... The book is narrated by Death and the style is a bit different, making the first few chapters a little confusing. It makes perfect sense though and it easy to follow along once you get used to it. It's the story of a young girl living in Germany during World War II, I won't give any more details so you can read it for yourself! If you love books and love the places a book/words can take you, you will love this story. (Oh and check out the avg. rating for this book is a 4.5, so I'm not the only person who loved it!)
epoxy's review against another edition
2.0
The most intelligent things I’ve ever read were all really simple, deceptively simple.
This book works really hard. It makes YOU work really hard.
My life is hard, I don’t need this in books.
This book works really hard. It makes YOU work really hard.
My life is hard, I don’t need this in books.
styria's review against another edition
4.0
Le début arrive à être mignon une fois passées les horreurs de la guerre, et malgré le climat dans lequel vit Liesel, les enfants ont cette faculté de s'amuser de rien et on oublie parfois que l'histoire se déroule en 1940 (environ). Les passages avec Max caché au sous sol et ses écrits (L'homme qui se penchait, incroyable) se lisent extrêmement vite et la fin est très belle bien qu'aussi très triste. J'ai beaucoup aimé la narration faite par la Mort elle-même.
joanchloe's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
waxbiplane's review against another edition
4.0
Kind of a lovely book. Dark and strange, with the added bonus of Death as narrator, to give it an odd scope and perspective. Add Liesel Memminger to the growing list of YA characters i want an imaginary daughter to grow up to resemble. (See also Belaqua, Lyra and Everdeen, Katniss).
slothpaced's review against another edition
2.5
rudy :(
loved the beginning and the end but the middle dragged too much. also kind of uncomfortable depiction of jewish people by an author who's not jewish himself
loved the beginning and the end but the middle dragged too much. also kind of uncomfortable depiction of jewish people by an author who's not jewish himself
kate_albers's review against another edition
4.0
My mother gave me this book and I loved it. It is a beautiful story and I was sad when it ended. I recommend it to anyone.