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A review by katie_chandler
The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke
3.0
I like that this fantasy YA book covers the Berlin Wall in the late 1980’s. It’s a period in history that I don’t know a lot about, though I have an interest in WWII historical fiction. Having read this, I am primed to be educated on what East Berlin was like after WWII and how the wall came to be and fall.
The book was entertaining, but didn’t give me a full enough picture of East Berlin beyond general paranoia and restrictions in the setting. In the final few chapters, characters that hadn’t sworn the entire time let off a series of F-bombs that seemed out of place. Didn’t love the ending.
The book was entertaining, but didn’t give me a full enough picture of East Berlin beyond general paranoia and restrictions in the setting. In the final few chapters, characters that hadn’t sworn the entire time let off a series of F-bombs that seemed out of place. Didn’t love the ending.