A review by booksthatburn
The Reader by Traci Chee

Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.

This lost me when the main character teaches herself to read, including what words sound like, based on a random book and a dim recollection of playing with letter blocks as a small child. Maybe I’m just too used to English’s determination to demand use of common words which break every otherwise useful rule of pronunciation, but it broke my suspension of disbelief and I never quite got it back.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Death of parent, and Death

Minor: Animal death, Body horror, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, and Torture