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I wasn’t enjoying the tone of the book anyway—it’s a sopping-wet love story with paper-thin characters and some thoroughly fantastical plot points, set in a concentration camp. But then I read what the response has been from the Auschwitz Memorial and other Jewish historical associations, and those were nails in the coffin. The fact that the author claims it’s historically accurate only makes it worse. It’s an awful book, and I strongly don’t recommend it.
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Recommended by a friend. Read in one sitting. Nice story in a horrendous unfathomable time in history. Very likable main character. Plot drew me in enough to want to know how it turned out. But the writing is horrible. I didn’t know it purported to be a real story until the end. The acknowledgements reveal what I suspected - it was a screenplay first. The author ran out steam and just inserted her notes summaries or didn’t convert screen play sections. This book need a much stronger editor. So I
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