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Boktjuven by Markus Zusak

13 reviews

asurasantosha's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Multiple people were telling me to read this for ages and I kept putting it off. It sounded sad and it also seemed like it would drag (over 500 pages about the Holocaust from the perspective of death? Wow!). Not from being uninteresting, just from being a lot.

It is a lot. But it's also not so much about rhe Holocaust, it more just about the war, its devastation and the personal story of a girl who lived through it.

It's heart breaking, of course. But there's also beautiful moments of love and friendship.

The first couple of chapters (parts? Idk, the book is organized strangely) were harder for me to get through because I didn't care about the characters much yet. But I an so so glad I stuck with it and read and enjoyed this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Antisemitism, and War

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Genocide, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

samcsmith's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Antisemitism, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lindasoderlundd's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Suicide and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Ableism, Bullying, Blood, Car accident, Alcohol, and Classism

bea2001's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Suicide and Car accident

gh1's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

Moderate: Gun violence, Hate crime, Torture, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

Minor: Bullying, Child death, Self harm, Suicide, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Classism

jg34's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

Sorry I can’t write a review yet bc I’m still crying my eyes out 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Grief, and War

Moderate: Child death, Suicide, Vomit, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Car accident

A boo set in nazi germany during WWII that does not shy from details

abbyluvsfrogs444's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

"It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding." 

Wow. That was a life-changing book. That was so sad. I am so glad that I read it, though. This is one of those books that is becoming a modern classic and everyone knows about it. And it definitely deserves that classic status. What a read. What a sad yet beautiful story. I love this book. But I'll probably never read it again. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Genocide, Gore, Violence, Blood, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Suicide, and Car accident

Minor: Abandonment and Alcohol

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Mental illness, Sexism, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Vomit, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

kade_s's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad

• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Antisemitism, Grief, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Child abuse, Racism, Suicide, Violence, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Bullying

_bxllxe_'s review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Finally knocked this one off the old TBR. It went by pretty quickly for the length; however, I still think it was about a hundred pages too long. Despite the gravity of the situation in which our thief Liesel finds herself, this is a cozy book in the sense that almost all the characters, even the cranky ones, are lovable, even cute. The real genius of this story is the quirky mundanity of the plot as more sinister things transpire just out of view. There are of course several devastating moments where the horror of Nazi Germany catches up to our characters, ultimately making this a very emotional read. Though I didn’t end up rating this as highly as I expected, I still think it’s a wonderful book and I’m glad I finally read it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Cursing, Death, Genocide, Antisemitism, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

Minor: Suicide, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail