All the Light We Cannot See

“All the Light We Cannot See” is a novel that won the 2014 Goodreads Choice Award for best Historical Fiction and the National Book Award finalist award, and I totally agree that this book deserves those accolades. This novel manages to weave a tale of two people who are connected by change, circumstances, radio communications, and their own humanity into something that had me hooked not only on the characters plight, but also on the language alone. How all these things fit together is best left discovered by the reader,but let me tell you, it was an excellent journey to behold. The amount of detail and description is simply fantastic, and demands to be read slowly and methodically. The plot changes characters and time period to weave a story that never had me lost no matter how long it was since I last picked it up or where I was in the book. Believe me, that is saying something considering how long it took me to read this (over a month and a half).It is also the little things that I like, like how there is a fantastic example of the french resistance in this book, which is something one does not find every day. In conclusion, this book deserves all of the praise it gets. I will read it again, and I will enjoy it even more the second time around. I give it a five, out of five.