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All the Light We Cannot See
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June Group Read: All The Light We Cannot See
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mollusskka
Mar 05, 2016 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: i-cried, bad-ending
Finally, finally, finally after two months struggling to finish this book. I made it to the last page! Yeay!!!

It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the book. It’s good and captivating. So beautifully written like a poetry until it is a little dragging and somehow it makes me feel that war is “amazing”!!! Amazingly destroying every creatures back then at the World War II, which became the main setting of the story.

Honestly, I already had my own prediction about the story. Having known there are two main
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Fatoni M
Jun 05, 2021 rated it it was amazing
Sejak belajar cara membangun cerita yang baik dan benar, anggapanku soal karya fiksi yang bagus terdoktrin. Cerita yang bagus itu harus jelas act structure-nya: inciting incident, act II, midpoint, lost it all, act III, resolution, ending. Sungguh naif. Dalam pengalamannya, ada karya fiksi yang tidak terlihat arah ceritanya, tapi masih bisa dinikmati setiap chapter-nya. All the Light We Cannot See salah satunya.

Buku ini dibuka dengan adegan Amerika yang mencoba merebut Saint Malo, Perancis, yang
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Sari Herbita
May 31, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Dari segi cerita, tema yang diangkat sangatlah bagus. Tentang apa yang dialami segelintir orang pada saat perang dunia kedua terjadi. Sebelum ini aku hanya membayangkan bom dan penembakan dimana-mana saat perang, tidak sampai membayangkan beban psikologis sesedih ini. Padahal cuma 2 tokoh yang diceritakan namun sudah cukup memporak porandakan perasaan pembaca.

Diceritakan secara maju mundur dan dari sudut pandang orang ketiga, kehidupan Marie-Laure dan Werner diceritakan secara paralel. Sehingga
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Eve
Jul 05, 2016 rated it it was amazing
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?”-Marie-Laure

And again, and again from this story i learned that, war is not a wise way to get an autorithy, to get a power, it just remains loss.

I do love this book. I've never read any of historical romance stories as beautiful as this is.
At first, it took me so long to finish the 500 pages of the book. GAH! PLEASE HELP ME TO FINISH THIS! Because of- first, the story-line drive me crazy it written
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Ana
Aug 11, 2017 rated it liked it
this was totally an "it's not you, it's me" kind of book for me... ...more
Danielle
Nov 15, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: ebooks, fiction
Brenda
Dec 02, 2014 marked it as to-read
Arielle Vanessa
Dec 13, 2014 marked it as to-read
Nikki
Dec 16, 2014 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 2014
Julia
Dec 16, 2014 marked it as to-read
Lolita
Mar 06, 2017 rated it it was amazing
Ayrdrie
Mar 26, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Rian
May 07, 2015 added it
Alisha
May 13, 2015 marked it as to-read
Jodi
Jul 02, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Lina
Jul 10, 2015 marked it as to-read
Ari
Sep 24, 2015 marked it as to-read
Salju January
Nov 05, 2015 marked it as to-read
Dorrit
Dec 29, 2015 marked it as to-read
Shelves: 2016, dnf
Annie
May 05, 2016 marked it as to-read
Lauren
Jun 23, 2016 marked it as to-read
Putuayu
Jun 29, 2016 marked it as to-read
Karolina M
Aug 06, 2016 rated it it was amazing
Rory
Jul 20, 2017 rated it liked it
Sara Houser
Apr 12, 2018 marked it as to-read
Darvey
May 25, 2018 marked it as to-read
Pris
Nov 04, 2020 marked it as wish-list  ·  review of another edition
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