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The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
3.0
This felt too casual. When starting this book I felt a brief panic that "this book is going to make me cry", in reality I wish it had. It's hard to rate anything that's based on a true story, particularly about the holocaust, but I was really hoping to feel more when reading this. I don't believe it was story so much as how it was told. It felt to me that there were details held back for my own sake, despite there being some parts of the story that were still horrid and terrifying, hints of what was going on to other people. And perhaps this was how the story was told to Heather, certain details left out because they were still too hard to talk about or re-live.
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
5.0
For some reason when I first started this book, everyone in my head spoke with a New Jersey accent, and because of the story being set in 1999 (I was eight by the way and have no real recolecction of the time) I thought i wouldn't connect with this book very much and thought I'd get through it but it wouldn't do much for me. Somewhere towards the middle, however, I got lost. The accents disappeared and I kept rooting for Lincoln to somehow find a way to win Beth over. I loved the geeky references of Lord of the Rings, D & D and Star Wars (it's very trendy for 2018) and I loved how this book surprised me. I kept thinking it was going to end a certain way and when the story shifted and as it did a reformed new theories about the ending, but the ending still surprised me and made my heart melt. This book was adorable.