matt_and_cheez 's review for:

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

5.0

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To me, a circus is just a big show of cruelty under a tent. But my dislike of them did nothing to ruin this book for me. Water for Elephants has to be one of the greatest books I've ever read. The characters are vivid and unforgetable, human and animal. Yes, the animals are treated very badly at times, and I don't normally read or watch anything with animal abuse, but the story was so enthralling that I pushed through the stuff that was hard to read just so I could see what happened next. A circus during the Great Depression, that's pretty unique. I'm definitely going to give Gruen's other books a try!