Book Review: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

The Book Thief

By Markus Zusak

It is 1939. In Nazi Germany, the country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier - and will become busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed forever when she picks up a single object, abandoned in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, and this is her first act of book thievery. So begins Liesel's love affair with books and words, and soon she is stealing from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library . . . wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times, and when Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, nothing will ever be the same again.

Book Rating:

📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend.

📚📚📚📚 = A really great read.

📚📚📚 = It was enjoyable.

📚📚 = It was okay.

📚 = Um...! 😕

My Review 

The Book Thief

📚📚 

I really wanted to like this book, and I really did try. The writing is flawless, the delivery is brilliant, but and the one thing I found really uncomfortable while reading this book is that death is the narrator. I know that sounds crazy, but I just could not get my head around it and I found it really creepy. 

There was also a lack of  I don't know, tension. There was a sort of tension but it was easily resolved, and there were beautifully written scenes but they did not compel me to carry on reading. I don't like not finishing a book, but I really had a difficult time with this one.

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Markus Zusak is the author of five books, including the international bestseller, The Book Thief , which spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, and is translated into more than forty languages – establishing Zusak as one of the most successful authors to come out of Australia.