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Aug 24, 2020anne1212li rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This novel is an absolute must-read! Right from the start, it was captivating. The book itself brilliantly portrays the horrors of WW2 and the devastation caused by it. Werner, a gifted albino genius with a knack for assembling radios and transmitters, is a German orphanage boy sent to become a Nazi. Marie-Laurie, a blind French girl with a secret within the house within the house, is constantly revolving around the French-resistance. This book is mainly written between these two perspectives with a few in between. The story shows how devastatingly cruel the Germans are while also showing their innerly-good human nature. In my eyes, it doesn't show too much of the French Resistance and what it did, same with the men going onto the front-line for the Germans. It cannot connect with the audience and readers and you feel numb as you read about bombings. Emotions like fear and hurt are scarce and hard to understand for readers. However, it is well written with good analogies.