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A review by aim_mee223
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
3.0
I have no idea where to start with this book. I fricking loved it. However, there were also major things that I didn't like. At all.
This book was segmented into different points of time. Doerr utilised beautiful, lyrical writing - it was amazing, but it got me lost. It was confusing to remember the different points of time and you have to sort out what happened. It was the kind of book where something big happens and it goes back in time, but it jumped to after the event also and it was just confusing (and I confused myself again writing this). But I have to say that I really liked the short chapters and how he changed the pov through the book.
Both Marie-Laure and Werner were great characters. Werner was somewhat unrealistic, lacking an opinion about the Nazi regime. Being a child, you would think that he would form a strong opinion and this really took away from his character and instead, he was nonchalant. Sometimes I felt that Doerr could have gone into more depth into the characters (including Volkheimer) to create more complexity.
I also wasn't a fan of the perfect, all rounded story. I know that the blurb says that Marie-Laure and Werner are connected and it was to be expected but it was not my cup of tea. I think it was unrealistic, to say the least and it put me off. Lastly, the last part was extremely flat. I think that it could have been written so much better. Or maybe not at all. I think that I wouldn't have minded if it was cut out altogether.
This book was segmented into different points of time. Doerr utilised beautiful, lyrical writing - it was amazing, but it got me lost. It was confusing to remember the different points of time and you have to sort out what happened. It was the kind of book where something big happens and it goes back in time, but it jumped to after the event also and it was just confusing (and I confused myself again writing this). But I have to say that I really liked the short chapters and how he changed the pov through the book.
Both Marie-Laure and Werner were great characters. Werner was somewhat unrealistic, lacking an opinion about the Nazi regime. Being a child, you would think that he would form a strong opinion and this really took away from his character and instead, he was nonchalant. Sometimes I felt that Doerr could have gone into more depth into the characters (including Volkheimer) to create more complexity.
I also wasn't a fan of the perfect, all rounded story. I know that the blurb says that Marie-Laure and Werner are connected and it was to be expected but it was not my cup of tea. I think it was unrealistic, to say the least and it put me off. Lastly, the last part was extremely flat. I think that it could have been written so much better. Or maybe not at all. I think that I wouldn't have minded if it was cut out altogether.