ancient_sorbet 's review for:

The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

4.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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The main character is a good person who finds himself compromising his morals to continue to live and save as many others as he can. I find this to make his character decidedly more lovable. The most of the other side characters weren’t developed well enough to really have me care if they died. Sone I genuinely was upset by, but a lot I didn’t feel the impact. I figured it was a style choice to show the impact of being surrounded by death. The book was filled with characters that would put Satan out of a job, and they were based on real people. But she also also shown a lot of humanity too. All in all it’s a beautiful book. </spoilers>

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Antisemitism, Murder, War

Moderate: Sexual content, Sexual violence

Minor: Sexual assault

The sexual violence is incredibly brief as is what I would consider the sexual assault scene. I would still use caution if any of that triggers you. It is on par with any other Holocaust/Shoah work. I wanted to give survivors of trauma a warning.