A review by aotora
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

dark emotional informative mysterious 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? Yes

2.0

I finally got around to reading this book.. and it was disappointing. I mean the story was good - it's yet another Holocaust story but this one tells us about the Jews that were rounded up and deported from Paris- mainly children that shouldn't even be deported. So far so good - the main character is Sarah, the girl who locks her brother in a cupboard thinking that they will come back the next day because her parents choose to not tell her the horrible truth - parallel to her story we get another one from an American woman who is writting an article about the round up and learning about what happened and about Sarah whose family lived in the house she inherited from her husband's grandma. Sarah escapes and goes back, only to find that her brother died in the cupboard and she later commits suicide out of guilt - but after that the books focuses to the other main character and it just loses the thread. It's no longer really interesting and I didn't really care for it after we find out that Sarah died. It was all right but it had a chance to tell an interesting story but it instead chose to go and tell a boring one about a woman and her obnoxious husband trying to find out what happened whilst dealing with marital problems.