Reviews tagging 'Confinement'

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

72 reviews

planreadrepeat's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Although fictionalized, the book does do a decent job describing the horrors of concentration camps. I’ve only read about “regular” prisoners but this is set with a special prisoner as the main. Not a sympathizer but maybe a little pragmatic about saving himself and those he cares about. I do think it was a good story about humans keeping hope and surviving when faced with impossible odds. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Confinement, Antisemitism, Genocide, and Murder

firefly28x's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

I finished this book in a single day and it has rendered me speechless. It clearly lays out many of the horrors and atrocities of the holocaust and really makes you think about what people had to go through during this time. I was gripped from start to finish and can't wait to read more of Heather Morris' works

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Death, Confinement, Genocide, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Body horror, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Physical abuse, War, Blood, Torture, Rape, and Hate crime

Moderate: Deportation, Death of parent, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Grief, Gun violence, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, and Slavery

Minor: Vomit, Infertility, Excrement, and Adult/minor relationship

angelofmusic317's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This is the remarkable true story of survival of a Jewish man and woman imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust. This is also a story of love through all odds in impossible and tragic circumstances. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Death, Confinement, Antisemitism, War, Violence, and Torture

Moderate: Child death, Rape, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Minor: Vomit, Excrement, Pregnancy, and Infertility

theurban_reader's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.75

imagine a bumblebee. now consider this, according to all aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly because its body weight is not in the right proportion to its wingspan. 

BUT ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway.

the protagonist of this book, lale aka the tattooist of auschwitz is a bumblebee my friend.

this book is based on the true story of lale sokolov whose actual name was ludwig eisenberg. lale was from slovakia, he lived with his parents before he was asked to “work” for the german government. this scene was described as such in the book and gave me literal shivers, “… lale watched as the doors of the wagon were slammed shut and heard them bolted by members of the slovakian army, men whose job it should have been to protect him”.

it’s not an ideal world but imagine living in a world where you can’t depend on the people of your own nation, oh wait. you don’t even have to imagine that, just take a look around. have we travelled back in time? have we as a society learnt nothing from history? how much greed is too much greed?

i called lale a bumblebee not for his physical features but because of his perseverance and his hopefulness to make it out alive. i call him a bumblebee because against ALL odds not only did he survive but he went on to live a full life with gita whom he had met at auschwitz. he found love and he survived!

this book at no point gets slow or boring. morris honours lale’s story by giving us an accurate and horrifying account of a man and what he went through in those camps, what he did to survive, and what he gave up. but she also gave us a story where love conquers hatred and reminds us how kindness was, is and shall remain the bravest act.

i most certainly recommend. 

if you’ve read it lemme know your thoughts, if you’re gonna read it soon i’ll be glad to hear you’ve been convinced to read this survival story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Genocide, Religious bigotry, War, and Hate crime

mjlease08's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Genocide, Murder, Physical abuse, Confinement, Rape, Antisemitism, Classism, Sexual violence, Violence, and Sexual assault

Minor: Suicide

alanadriggers's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Religious bigotry, Torture, Sexual assault, Blood, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Gore, Rape, Child death, Death, Grief, Violence, and War

pambo's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement

Moderate: Gun violence, Violence, Death, and Murder

Minor: Sexual violence and Child death

cc24680's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Violence, Religious bigotry, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Torture

jg34's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Pretty hard to read content wise but I knew that going in. I think the author did well to put sort of a first person perspective on what it was like live in a concentration camp during WWII with more depth and realness that can be obtained from reading a history book. I know this is based on a true story and a real couple but the way it was written I was not totally sold on the love story. The man just decides he loves a random girl and that’s that? They had some sweet moments and I know that the author had a lot of other information to cover but the love story was kind of the whole point so I wish it was flushed out a bit more. 

After reading some other reviews some say this might not be the most historically accurate portrayal, so when reading this please keep this in mind. I don’t think it ruins the book for me as I was more into it from an emotional standpoint but knowing that just don’t take everything as fact.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Rape, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Death, Blood, Confinement, Genocide, Xenophobia, War, Religious bigotry, Torture, Sexual assault, Physical abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, Sexual content, Trafficking, and Suicide

Minor: Excrement, Child death, and Vomit

This is a book about the holocaust and it doesn’t not shy away from gruesome truths that happen at concentration camps

saubean's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Murder, Grief, Gun violence, Slavery, Violence, War, Confinement, Death, Genocide, and Racism

Moderate: Death of parent and Alcohol

Minor: Excrement