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This is a hard book to rate, because the good parts were easily 4-5 stars, but overall, the book was too unfocused and I didn‘t appreciate Ackerman‘s tendency to indulge in fanciful flights of imagination. She would say something might have happened a certain way and then describe her imagined scene in rich detail. She writes too poetically to tell this harrowing war story in a compelling way and it was a struggle to get into.
CSeydel I had to switch to audio so I could let the extensive descriptions just flow by. However, during the later part of the war, I was fully consumed by the descriptions of the Żabińskis‘ daring and the various close calls and terrors they withstood. 7mo
TheSpineView Sounds good! 7mo
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