All the Light You Cannot See (Book)

 So many people have recommended this book to me, over a period of several years. Even after Mum lent me a copy I took a while to start it - I think I was worried that it wouldn't live up to my expectations. At first that did seem to be the case, it took me a while to get into it. The short chapters felt a bit jarring and I wasn't entirely sure what was going on, but the more I read the more I loved it. The short chapters made sense in between longer chapters and I loved the way it moved back and forward in time so that the story slowly became clearer and clearer. It had brilliant word use and really painted a picture of both the French and German situation during WWII. It was still more sympathetic towards the French point of view, but it definitely showed how things came about in Germany.

It really did live up to the hype once I relaxed into it.

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