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leslie_fournier95 's review for:
Caging Skies
by Christine Leunens
I don’t even know how to feel about this book. Whoever wrote the blurb on the back of the book needs to have some serious self-reflection if they described this book as ‘darkly funny.’ It’s not funny at all.
The first half was excellent. I found it to be insightful and written very differently from many World War II books I have read previously. However…
…the second half made me feel disgusting just reading it. Knowing the book was written by a woman makes me hope that she understood what she was doing when creating a character as depraved as Johannes. My wish is that she wanted to showcase a character who was manipulative, smothering, selfish and debased who never learns his lesson. I can only keep my fingers crossed that this was her intention.
I will happily donate this book and hope someone else finds it intriguing. I would be thrilled to never open it again.
The first half was excellent. I found it to be insightful and written very differently from many World War II books I have read previously. However…
…the second half made me feel disgusting just reading it. Knowing the book was written by a woman makes me hope that she understood what she was doing when creating a character as depraved as Johannes. My wish is that she wanted to showcase a character who was manipulative, smothering, selfish and debased who never learns his lesson. I can only keep my fingers crossed that this was her intention.
I will happily donate this book and hope someone else finds it intriguing. I would be thrilled to never open it again.