mtngirl4 's review for:

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

2.0

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I was greatly disappointed with this book. It has been on my TBR shelf for a while and historical fiction is my favorite genre so I was really looking forward to it. The premise behind it is solid and I wish that the entire book had followed Sarah from the beginning to end. I actually learned something new during Sarah's story. Instead, there is a modern story about Julia, a reporter who digs up Sarah's story from the past. Julia, and her husband, Bertrand, are selfish, predictable, one dimensional, tropey characters who are completely uninteresting and most of the book winds up being about them. The writing was also juvenile and dull. It seemed that the author mostly wanted talk about how snobby Parisians are more than anything else. The only reason why I didn't give this book one star is because the repeated theme is "we must never forget", a mantra with which I agree whole heartedly, not just about the Holocaust, but all history, especially in this modern age when we seem to be suffering from memory loss and digressing rapidly. Other than that, this book isn't worth your time.