So I just looked this up and it’s not released until September of this year per Amazon. Have you both been paid to review this? If not how did you acquire it?
There are much better reads about this awful time than this book. I felt it was very rote, just factual and no character development or atmosphere given to the plot. Basically it is a love story with most events glossed over. The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See and The Book Thief are way better.
Not great in the genre. There are def better books around the Holocaust either fact or fiction.I thought it was badly written and rushed. It was a screenplay first and it shows!
Thank goodness I am not the only one, I feel so apologetic that I really and truly did not enjoy it. It felt like the author was taking something truly horrific and catastrophic and romanticising it. I put it down as well but picked it up again almost out of respect. Definitely not for me.
@Elspeth it really did seem that way, I guess in such a situation that’s when a person would need love the most but I feel like from other books I’ve read, the feeling of horror, and being starved and worked to death, could be beaten or killed at any moment I just feel like that type of atmosphere, romance wouldn’t be on anyones mind. Maybe I’m wrong but it seems like someone saw the movie Life is beautiful where they made a comedy and romance out of the holocaust and wanted to write something like that.
Yes. Amazing read
I enjoyed it 🙂
I had no idea this existed!
So I just looked this up and it’s not released until September of this year per Amazon. Have you both been paid to review this? If not how did you acquire it?
I bought it from amazon a while ago
I’m looking into preordering the paperback.
This is exciting! Those crafty marketing vixens…not releasing it everywhere at once!
bought it from WH Smith in April.
@Margaret I live in California. I ordered it from Amazon and it was shipped from GB!
@Liz I got mine on my kindle.
I bought it off of book depository
But it was released in January I think
Absolutely !
Yes
Yes
No
Yes. I highly recommend it
Absolutely
Yes its pretty interesting to read about what happened then.
I got it from Book depositary
I found NIGHT by Elie Weisel interesting and also very heart wrenching. I loved that. But I haven’t read it since grade school.
Yes
There are much better reads about this awful time than this book. I felt it was very rote, just factual and no character development or atmosphere given to the plot. Basically it is a love story with most events glossed over. The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See and The Book Thief are way better.
Yeah, i would like to read more about what actually happened their now. Some bits of his story i didn’t believe or i felt were exaggerated maybe.
I recently read renas promise. It was amazing. So much better written
@Emma Rena’s Promise is my favorite!!! Along with Born Survivors and My Enemy’s Cradle.
Those books are fiction. The Tattooist is not.
@Liz Rena’s Promise is not fiction. Neither is Inside the Gas Chambers or The Librarian of Auschwitz. Born Survivors is a true story also.
If you read the ones I listed, the authors interviewed the actual people involved.
@Robin I was replying to Janie Fish. The books she listed are fiction.
@Liz oh ok:)
I’m loving it
I’d borrow then buy if you like. I wouldn’t read it again but it was a really good book
Yes
Yessssssss
Definitely
YES
Neh
Most definitely
Yes I really loved it x
Loved it
Reading it now and really enjoying it
Definately – brilliant book
yes yes yes
Excellent book.
Absolutely, definitely YES ?
Not really
Definitely
Yes it’s nothing amazing but an emotional well written novel based on true story and I enjoyed it
Yes
Yes definitely!
Yes yes yes
Reading it now. Yes very good
I think that there are better books written about the holocaust out there, I found it an ok read, sorry not agreeing with the majority on here.
Yes!
YES!!!!
Absolutely!
Yes
I have read better books about the Holocaust. Just reading it now and over half way through. Its certainly more gripping now.
its amazing book
Yes !!!!!
Yes! I think of it more as a love story that happens to take place during the Holocaust.
Yes loved it
Not great in the genre. There are def better books around the Holocaust either fact or fiction.I thought it was badly written and rushed. It was a screenplay first and it shows!
I have to agree with you.
Reading it now and really enjoying it!
Not the best Holocaust book but as it’s written from a very different angle than usual it’s worth sticking with
Very good!
Yes
Yes!!
Yes
100% YES
Agree with Alex – did not seem believable
no
Get from library if possible.
Brilliant book!!
Yes !!
Yes!!
Bring to dancing please x
Yes absolutely.
Rent it from the library.
It’s the “Little million pieces” of it’s genre. I don’t believe half of it.
Excellent, very moving
Yes
Not worth buying- borrow from library.
Just finished it! What an amazing book, it’s a must read
100% yes!
Yes excellent get the tissues ready.
Yes
My mum- not a big reader- read it in a day. Get it!
yes cheaowr
Worth reading, but not the best written holocaust book.
But, if it gets the message across, it’s done the job
It’s a true story and I think it is definitely worth reading whether you buy it or borrow it
Yes !!!!
Without a doubt
I feel like someone made it up…I didn’t even finish it because it just seems like fiction to me.
Thank goodness I am not the only one, I feel so apologetic that I really and truly did not enjoy it. It felt like the author was taking something truly horrific and catastrophic and romanticising it. I put it down as well but picked it up again almost out of respect. Definitely not for me.
@Elspeth it really did seem that way, I guess in such a situation that’s when a person would need love the most but I feel like from other books I’ve read, the feeling of horror, and being starved and worked to death, could be beaten or killed at any moment I just feel like that type of atmosphere, romance wouldn’t be on anyones mind. Maybe I’m wrong but it seems like someone saw the movie Life is beautiful where they made a comedy and romance out of the holocaust and wanted to write something like that.
Yes!!!
Yes I really enjoyed it