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hpluvshaft 's review for:
Caging Skies
by Christine Leunens
The first half of this book was great (and also the only part Taika Waititi adapted for JoJo Rabbit).
At the halfway point though, World War 2 ends and Johannes Betzler becomes the most unsympathetic narrator I’ve ever read. I hate him more than Joe from You by Caroline Kepnes and he was a serial killer. Maybe I should have expected less from a narrator who is literally a Nazi.
It could be that I’m not really much a ~romance~ reader or it could be that the romance in this book, being based on the lie that the war was won by Germany and manipulation/abuse from Johannes, just made me uncomfortable. Johannes also repeatedly brings up how fat and ugly the Jewish girl he’s held as a prisoner for years has become. Why do I care what this man is going through? If you don’t consider him evil, he’s DEFINITELY stupid.
I really wanted it to get better because the writing is great and the first half of the book made me care about the Betzlers, but once the war ends the lives of both of these characters just kind of plummets and there is not much redemption.
At the halfway point though, World War 2 ends and Johannes Betzler becomes the most unsympathetic narrator I’ve ever read. I hate him more than Joe from You by Caroline Kepnes and he was a serial killer. Maybe I should have expected less from a narrator who is literally a Nazi.
It could be that I’m not really much a ~romance~ reader or it could be that the romance in this book, being based on the lie that the war was won by Germany and manipulation/abuse from Johannes, just made me uncomfortable. Johannes also repeatedly brings up how fat and ugly the Jewish girl he’s held as a prisoner for years has become. Why do I care what this man is going through? If you don’t consider him evil, he’s DEFINITELY stupid.
I really wanted it to get better because the writing is great and the first half of the book made me care about the Betzlers, but once the war ends the lives of both of these characters just kind of plummets and there is not much redemption.