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kbee12 's review for:
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
This book was sorrowful and beautiful it allowed you to look into the past and see that the World War II did not just affect the Jews but forced thousands of people out of their countries and homes. I didn't realize that there were labor camps I thought that there was just concentration camps. This book helped me open my eyes to what happend in thoses disgusting places and how insane Hitler and Stalin both were and left me contemplating human nature and made me think if people are realy that bad and demented deep down. I hope not and pray to god that something like this wont ever happpen again but i also know that there are horrible people and this kinds of crulty happen all the time on smaller scale. This novel also gave me information about Josef Stalin which I know was a important historical figure in WWII but didn't know much about him or what he did to people. This book kept me reading and left me horrified at what human beings did to each other. The character Lina was very relistic and so was her family. Ruta Sepetys wrote a wonderful sorrowful and beautifuly heart breakng novel.It had me gasping out load and shuddering with disgust at the conditions that human beings had to live through. It left me cringing when Lina had to strip her cloths off and was forced to take a shower with all those people and while the gaurds watched... it left me sick to my stomach when she and her brother scavanged food like animals and left me sobing when Lina had to leave behind Andrius and was openly bawling when Lina and Jonas had to watch their mother slip away. But along with all the bad feelings this novel left me it also had me feeling hope. Hope that Lina would find her father and that when i read the letter that Lina left I was so filled with joy that she found Andrius. It also left me wondering what happend to her brother Jonas? How did they get to the point where they got married in their life? The biggest of my questions being did Lina find her dad or was he really die in the prison camp he was at? All in all this novel was breath taking I recommend this book to anyone intrested in World War II. Be ready and have your tissues ready.Between shades of Gray is incredibly real and left me with a story that I will never forget.