Review: All The Light We Cannot See

 

HEAR ME OUT, I SHALL NOT BE SILENCED. I SHALL NOT BOW TO THE SILENCE. Okay, this book, THIS BOOK did really dirty to me, like seriously, the amount of emotional trauma I experienced while reading it was immense as fuck. Like damn bro, why do you have to do this to me? I get it hurt, the readers, but it's like a fucking bus went over me like 100 times.

Following the story of Marie Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfenning, All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, tells is of their life during the second world war. Marie is a girl from France, who lives with her father, who made a model of the city for her, so that she can navigate it. Werner is an orphan living with his sister Jutta, and has a gift with radios. The war goes on, leading onto several events that might change their lives forever.

QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 4.9/5, I KID YOU NOT WHEN I SAY I UGLY CRIED BY THE END OF IT.

PROS:

1. The plot: The freaking plot. To be honest, there isn't much of a plot, considering the story is mostly character driven but the second world war is always a plot in itself. The second world war is something that changed the lives of millions [is that an exaggeration? I read history like 2 years ago, my facts may be a bit wonky] and loads of folks suffered, so that can always be considered as a turning point in the lives of a lot of folks. 

2. The story in itself: If you look closely, you can find no connection between the stories, they're just some stories that continue flowing independently. But you know they're gonna be connected somehow and that's the literal beauty of it. It keeps telling you the story of how these two folks have lived, both in the past and in the present, and you're anxiously waiting for when the time will come when they meet or when their stories connect. And when the stories do connect, it is perhaps the most beautiful thing that I have ever witnessed in my life. The connection, the freaking golden thread that was connecting them.

3. The style/narration: it's smooth and easy flowing. Like if you're not a person who gets easily distracted, unlike me, who has an attention span of like 3 minutes, 4 if I want it to but I usually don't, you can easily read it in one sitting. It flows easily and the mysterious aura around it kind of keeps your interest piqued. It's like a history book, except that you actually want to read this history book.

4. The plot twist: Like, it was all concerning the stone right? Like the moment it clicked in, I was like OHMYGOD. Like it really is a poggers moment and I was like, why the fuck didn't I figure it out.

5. WERNER'S DEATH BRUH, I CRIED.

CONS:

1. The beginning: the beginning does seem quite rocky af to me because it's hard to get through in the beginning and considering I don't actually understand what is happening in the "zero" section of the book? For me the events actually started making sense once I started the "one" section of the book.

OVERALL,A GREAT READ, still kinda upset it made me cry.