powerful read

A true story of human strength and partnerships. Love courage and pride. Will definitely pull at your heart strings. A book everyone should read.

tilli_h's review

4.75
adventurous emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark inspiring slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Reading about the horrors of Auschitz is never easy, and this book was truly hard hitting. The descriptions of the horrors thousands and thousands of people had o ensure were chilling. Reading about Moll's cruelty was nausea inducing, but at the same time, reading about Mally's constant hope, kindness and goodness, warmed by heart. Mally was a ray of sunshine in this ninth circle of hell.
This is a true story, and many of the people in this book died (some survived) in Auschwitz. Their pain and suffering was depicted with true skill by Ellie Midwood.
Reading Holocaust books makes me cry every time, but it is important we read them and try to remember those events and ensure they never ever repeat themselves.

Merged review:

Reading about the horrors of Auschitz is never easy, and this book was truly hard hitting. The descriptions of the horrors thousands and thousands of people had o ensure were chilling. Reading about Moll's cruelty was nausea inducing, but at the same time, reading about Mally's constant hope, kindness and goodness, warmed by heart. Mally was a ray of sunshine in this ninth circle of hell.
This is a true story, and many of the people in this book died (some survived) in Auschwitz. Their pain and suffering was depicted with true skill by Ellie Midwood.
Reading Holocaust books makes me cry every time, but it is important we read them and try to remember those events and ensure they never ever repeat themselves.
informative
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hannahmm93's review

4.0
dark emotional sad medium-paced
emotional inspiring 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: No

Book 3 of mum’s birthday present - really inspiring book. Makes me want to do more research into this period of history

smdennis20's review

4.5
dark emotional informative sad tense 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: No
emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes

lwilhelmsen's review

4.0
dark sad tense medium-paced