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I have to start by saying the audiobook is wonderful - I still can’t get the words "little Liesel Meminger" in Rosa's voice out of my head.
Moving on. This is fundamentally a young adult book, so I’m clearly not the target audience. It understandably shies away from being too graphic or overly complex, though the hints of deeper themes are there if you want to dive into analysis and inference. It is well-written, and using Death as a narrator is a refreshing choice, but there is a lot of literary prose for not much gain throughout most of the book (the man waffles about the weather an awful lot).
The middle definitely stretches out, but once again, the audiobook performance saves it and makes the journey worth it, even for an adult reader.
I have to start by saying the audiobook is wonderful - I still can’t get the words "little Liesel Meminger" in Rosa's voice out of my head.
Moving on. This is fundamentally a young adult book, so I’m clearly not the target audience. It understandably shies away from being too graphic or overly complex, though the hints of deeper themes are there if you want to dive into analysis and inference. It is well-written, and using Death as a narrator is a refreshing choice, but there is a lot of literary prose for not much gain throughout most of the book (the man waffles about the weather an awful lot).
The middle definitely stretches out, but once again, the audiobook performance saves it and makes the journey worth it, even for an adult reader.
