wendeline 's review for:

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
5.0

I loved this book! The author has a real talent for portraying horrible things through the eyes of a child. There's little bits of whimsy and magic thrown in through the boy's journey that makes it all that more enjoyable to read.

It was a horribly gruesome book in more ways than one. A guy got his eyes gouged out with a spoon, and someone stepped on them and squished them into jelly. Several detailed beating and rape scenes. I wouldn't recommend this book if you don't like gore, because there's a lot of it. However, it was an impactful book I won't be forgetting anytime soon