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emmajanetomlinson 's review for:
Sarah's Key
by Tatiana de Rosnay
Oof. Well that was a let down. Read this for spookopoly prompt five star prediction and as you can see it did not meet that mark.
I have various issues with this work primarily I feel the author wanted to write a cheap lit fic and used ww2 to sell copies. The horrific crimes are about 15% of the book in my opinion. I understand she ties it back but the whole time I was reading it I felt like I was reading two separate stories the author combined into one conglomeration.
Moving along I felt the writing was lacking. This may have been a stylistic choice to make Sarah sound like a child and Julia (?) to sound like a stupid American but my goodness it was grating. I didn’t care for it one bit and felt annoyed reading it.
On to a list of pros. I had no idea about France’s participation in the heinous slaughtering of Jews so found that super fascinating and gripping. My stomach was in knots reading about the vel d’Hiv roundup and all that entailed. Which is why I feel this book would have been so much stronger as a novella or simply telling the story of the crimes committed by Parisians.
I considered dnfing after Sarah finds her brother and leaving the story there but decided I should finish it out since the author thought the story needed nearly 200 more pages to finish the book. Boy-o was I wrong. I’d recommend reading to Sarah finding her brother and then stop because no one gives a rats ass about the present day story.
I have various issues with this work primarily I feel the author wanted to write a cheap lit fic and used ww2 to sell copies. The horrific crimes are about 15% of the book in my opinion. I understand she ties it back but the whole time I was reading it I felt like I was reading two separate stories the author combined into one conglomeration.
Moving along I felt the writing was lacking. This may have been a stylistic choice to make Sarah sound like a child and Julia (?) to sound like a stupid American but my goodness it was grating. I didn’t care for it one bit and felt annoyed reading it.
On to a list of pros. I had no idea about France’s participation in the heinous slaughtering of Jews so found that super fascinating and gripping. My stomach was in knots reading about the vel d’Hiv roundup and all that entailed. Which is why I feel this book would have been so much stronger as a novella or simply telling the story of the crimes committed by Parisians.
I considered dnfing after Sarah finds her brother and leaving the story there but decided I should finish it out since the author thought the story needed nearly 200 more pages to finish the book. Boy-o was I wrong. I’d recommend reading to Sarah finding her brother and then stop because no one gives a rats ass about the present day story.