Another World War 2 book read this year and this was not what I was expecting. I was expecting a quick read that would have me wanting to keep turning the pages and hook me from the very beginning. This took me a week to read and the book I just got done reading was 100 pages shorter and I read it in a day. I have had my eye on this for the last two years and with the netflix show coming out a few months ago, I was intrigued. I went into it not knowing much so when I learned that it was about radios and a blind girl, I didn't know whatto expect.
The formatting was not a favorite. The chapters were short which I don't know how to feel about because I always put down a book after a chapter to take a break and I think that is one of the reasons why it took me so long to read.
Whenever we were on a Werner chapter and the pieces of a radio and transistors were being described and how to put a radio together, I would skim because it took me out of the story because it was so boring. The same when Marie Laure described her self counting steps and storm drains to get around, I was just not into it. This could have been so much better, but it was so repetitive and tangent filled.
Also the Sea of Flames was a plot device that was just abandoned and I could not wrap my head around why we were constantly being told the story of the prince who couldn't die and the Goddess who made the stone.
I am going to be watching the show because I have been having a good time with adaptations and them being better than the books which is blasphemy.... I KNOW!
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