A review by mimipoppins
The Light at the End of the Day by Eleanor Wasserberg

1.0

This is a genre I normally love, and I was looking forward to this one, but I just didn’t like it. I felt the writing was a bit disjointed and big events just happened without any explanation... for example I didn’t understand the relationship between Adam and his wife and his French lover. Nor did I feel any chemistry between Karolina and Józef, all of a sudden, she was in love with him. I really didn’t connect with any of the characters and I think for this reason I found it hard to remember who was who, and had to keep reading back to remember what was going on. The pace of the book was a bit slow for me, I found I had read 40% and we were still in Kraków and only now was the painting finished. I struggled to get through this one and if it hadn’t been for a Better Reading Review, I don’t think I would have finished. A positive of the book was how the Polish Jews ended up in the labour camps, this part of the book was interesting and well written, but it wasn’t enough to make me like the book anymore.