A review by the_midnight_librarian
The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

3.0

This felt too casual. When starting this book I felt a brief panic that "this book is going to make me cry", in reality I wish it had. It's hard to rate anything that's based on a true story, particularly about the holocaust, but I was really hoping to feel more when reading this. I don't believe it was story so much as how it was told. It felt to me that there were details held back for my own sake, despite there being some parts of the story that were still horrid and terrifying, hints of what was going on to other people. And perhaps this was how the story was told to Heather, certain details left out because they were still too hard to talk about or re-live.