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Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys

Start date: April 22, 2016

Finish date: April 30, 2016

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Feb 23, 2016 Kim Benouski rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction

I didn't know about this boat tragedy and appreciated learning about it. I also connected with three of the four main characters telling the story (one was creepy and just didn't fit), as well as the shoemaker character. It was a bit difficult with the shifting views as I feel the author didn't differentiate the voices enough, but their unique stories were intriguing and heartbreaking and heart warming wrapped into one. Reading it in one sitting helped keep everyone straight, and by 1/3 of the w ...more

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Sep 13, 2020 Cora rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: american-author, audio-book-at-library, kindle, young-adult, world-war-ii, historical-fiction, war, europe, 20th-century, survival

I liked this book a lot. The author did a great job bringing the variety of characters to life. As I read the book, the details made it easy to image the terror the refugees felt as they were fleeing violence all around them. Sepetys tells a story that shows how everyday people from both sides of the conflict are caught up in the middle of the violence. It sheds light on an aspect of the war that often gets lost among the other horrible atrocities that occurred during World War II.

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Mar 30, 2017 Brenda rated it it was amazing

This was really good, and the subject matter was something that I actually hadn't heard about before. It's always nice to learn new things. The writing was great, and I felt very emotionally involved in the story. ...more

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May 09, 2016 Tfalcone rated it really liked it

Really, really good. The setting is the trek of Germans, Lithuanians and Polish people from East Prussia at the end of WWW II to escape the Russians. Each character has its own story to tell and hide.

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