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A review by albawaterhouse
Les Amnésiques by Géraldine Schwarz
4.0
I wanted to love this book but I didn't.
It took me 5 months to finish it because I could never bring myself to read more than 5 or 6 pages at a time because it reads mostly like a history text book, it is so dry. It is also confusing when she goes on to talk about family members and you lose track of who is who and what the timeline is. I think the book would have benefited from being told chronologically and maybe with a less strict and dry use of language. What I normally enjoy about journalistic essays is that they read at times like novels, this was not the case here. Overall, I really didn't enjoy Schwarz writing style and structuring.
However, I have to give it 4 stars because the topic and the research are amazing. I am glad I kept reading it until the end, I feel so much more informed and knowledgeable now. This is a dense and complicated topic and the book is a very valuable account of a side of our European history that is rarely talked about. The book should be read in every high school in France and Germany.
It took me 5 months to finish it because I could never bring myself to read more than 5 or 6 pages at a time because it reads mostly like a history text book, it is so dry. It is also confusing when she goes on to talk about family members and you lose track of who is who and what the timeline is. I think the book would have benefited from being told chronologically and maybe with a less strict and dry use of language. What I normally enjoy about journalistic essays is that they read at times like novels, this was not the case here. Overall, I really didn't enjoy Schwarz writing style and structuring.
However, I have to give it 4 stars because the topic and the research are amazing. I am glad I kept reading it until the end, I feel so much more informed and knowledgeable now. This is a dense and complicated topic and the book is a very valuable account of a side of our European history that is rarely talked about. The book should be read in every high school in France and Germany.