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"It's wonderful when a war ends, but then you remember that things will never be the same. Everyone you've lost will still be dead. Parents and relatives, and pets and best friends. And some people, even if they're not dead, you'll never see again.....Dreams are like stories. We have them for the same reason we have stories. To help us know things and feel better about them."

I'm not crying.....
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Okay.... maybe a little and few tears....
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OH ALRIGHT ALREADY.... Near the end of this book and for a good literal 9-10 pages....
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Like, a TOTAL MESS and even though it was the kind of book that was actually quick/fast read pages so getting through 10 pages isn't that difficult, I was seriously a mess and was ugly crying, bawling, sobbing, couldn't breathe crying with what happened. Oh my heart was breaking so much for Felix but rejoicing for him and then broke again and ugh! THIS is how you write from what I gathered an unplanned rest of Felix's story. Morris Gleitzman had captured the last year of the war in Poland in 1945 and with Partisans (who I take it were also part of some rebellion of sorts) and to get to live in their lives alongside Felix and without giving too much away, I'm so glad Gleitzman followed his gut feeling in finishing more AFTER the third book [b:Now|7200982|Now|Morris Gleitzman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344138853l/7200982._SY75_.jpg|7879835] where Felix is an old man living in Australia and his granddaughter is staying with him and is told from her POV and yet I absolutely loved the two previous books he did to introduce a very special fictional character and Jewish boy living in WWII Poland.

If you haven't read these or don't have these on your TBR, add them and start them when you can because Morris Gleitzman paints an amazing and heart wrenching scene of the Holocaust but it's through the eyes at first of a six year old innocent, naive little boy who was taken to an Orphanage by his parents because of his safety in the first book [b:Once|1045757|Once|Morris Gleitzman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1180479296l/1045757._SY75_.jpg|1032183] and [b:Then|8690357|Then|Morris Gleitzman|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1344313680l/8690357._SX50_.jpg|3330627] his story continues right where book one ends and by book 4 when Morris Gleitzman returns to Felix at the age of 13 (so seven year later after the first book) and now I'm even more excited to pick up the next two books. Only because in the third book, his granddaughter had said something about how the man who had helped hide and take Felix in during the last couple years of the war had helped practically and may as well have adopted him but also raised him until his death; and learning that in the third book, I knew deep down I wanted an extra two or three books or so to fill in that blank and sure enough as Gleitzman said in his note, he felt like Felix wasn't done with his story and I'm glad he decided to finish Felix's story because it's hard to put into words for me of how much I've come to love this little boy and how indescribable he is.

Felix Salinger is a character I wish everyone who read knew and to see these events through his eyes, to see and hear of what he describes it as, how he gets through the war, how he just tells it as it is by trying to learn so many different things and go along with it, I can tell you and promise you this series so far is seriously one of the best WWII historical fiction books I've ever read in my lifetime and totally worth it.