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A review by sammah
The Year They Burned the Books by Nancy Garden
2.0
Note: I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!
I really thought that I would love this book, but the honest truth is that I didn't. It just didn't resonate with me the way that I had hoped. The premise was very interesting, and the characters could have been great, but it just...didn't work for me. It all felt so jumbled, and the characters bounced around so much that I sometimes couldn't remember who was who. Maybe that was just me as a reader, but it just threw me off. I also have to remind myself that this book was published quite a long time ago now, and since then so much more progressive and important books have come along. For it's time it was probably pretty ground breaking to an extent, and maybe if I had read it then (going into high school) I would have felt differently. It just wasn't what I thought it would be though, and that was a let down.
I really thought that I would love this book, but the honest truth is that I didn't. It just didn't resonate with me the way that I had hoped. The premise was very interesting, and the characters could have been great, but it just...didn't work for me. It all felt so jumbled, and the characters bounced around so much that I sometimes couldn't remember who was who. Maybe that was just me as a reader, but it just threw me off. I also have to remind myself that this book was published quite a long time ago now, and since then so much more progressive and important books have come along. For it's time it was probably pretty ground breaking to an extent, and maybe if I had read it then (going into high school) I would have felt differently. It just wasn't what I thought it would be though, and that was a let down.