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Average rating4.2
Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father and daughter flee with a dangerous secret. Werner is a German orphan, destined to labour in the same mine that claimed his father's life, until he discovers a knack for engineering. His talent wins him a place at a brutal military academy, but his way out of obscurity is built on suffering. At the same time, far away in a walled city by the sea, an old man discovers new worlds without ever setting foot outside his home. But all around him, impending danger closes in. Doerr's combination of soaring imagination and meticulous observation is electric.
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Idk man. I couldn't really appreciate the writing style here, I thought the pacing was way too slow and the time jumps were too confusing for me. I also don't really gravitate towards war novels in general because the topic is particularly depressing to me, but I was curious to see what this book would bring to the table, having been fairly popular for so many years. But IDK MAN.
This is an absolutely haunting story of two individuals and their lives through WWII.
The flip flop from one character's narrative to the other's is exceptionally well written, drawing you in wanting to find what happens to them.
Another must read!
I found All the lights we cannot see good, i liked the story and the first time reading it, i read like 200 pages in one sitting, but then i got kind of slow... i dont know, maybe i was in a reading slump, but in all i give 4 stars because it was a well structured story, maybe it kind of got me confused sometimes with the time, i think i would have preferred it a little bit more when it would have been in chronological order. And i would have liked a little more tension, plot twist.
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