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A review by librarymaus
White Rose by Kip Wilson
1.0
Ok, this is on me.. Always do research first when it comes to reading a book you know Very little about. I came in thinking this was going to be a Novel about Sophie Scholl! Yes, I noticed that the page count was on the small side, but I didn’t think anything about it. But you can understand my confusion when this book started out in Poetry. Now even if I didn’t start out thinking this book would be a Historical account, I still would be disappointed with this book.
First of all, even someone like me with a limited knowledge of poetry can see that this is not great. It just sounds Bland and not poetic at all. It also bounces All over the Place, which just makes it So confusing to read.. And for someone to really understand What is going on in this book it feels like you need to First do research on Sophie and Hans. Because the Author doesn’t Explain ANYTHING going on until the Very End! The Only reason I was even able to understand what was going on in this book was because I had already Binge read all that Wiki had on the subject about two years ago.. Which is not good when you label this book as “Historic”.
All of this to say I’m Very disappointed with this book, I thought I was going to learn more about Sophie and her brother Hans (two people I admire So much.) But that hope flew out the Metaphorical Fenster as soon as I started this book. Now there were two things I liked about this book. The usage of the German language, And the “I’m not like other German girls” verse for Sophie (even though I hate saying it like that because of how much respect I have for her, but it did make me laugh just a bit..) If you really want to learn about these amazing people, just read Anything but this book. You’ll thank me later..
First of all, even someone like me with a limited knowledge of poetry can see that this is not great. It just sounds Bland and not poetic at all. It also bounces All over the Place, which just makes it So confusing to read.. And for someone to really understand What is going on in this book it feels like you need to First do research on Sophie and Hans. Because the Author doesn’t Explain ANYTHING going on until the Very End! The Only reason I was even able to understand what was going on in this book was because I had already Binge read all that Wiki had on the subject about two years ago.. Which is not good when you label this book as “Historic”.
All of this to say I’m Very disappointed with this book, I thought I was going to learn more about Sophie and her brother Hans (two people I admire So much.) But that hope flew out the Metaphorical Fenster as soon as I started this book. Now there were two things I liked about this book. The usage of the German language, And the “I’m not like other German girls” verse for Sophie (even though I hate saying it like that because of how much respect I have for her, but it did make me laugh just a bit..) If you really want to learn about these amazing people, just read Anything but this book. You’ll thank me later..