⭐️ Phenomenal, Plot-driven, Poignant⭐️
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All The Light We Cannot See is a book every historical fiction lover will enjoy and praise. The writing, the plot, the Charaters -everything is splendid.

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SYNOPSIS->
Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.

In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories from places they have never seen or imagined. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments and is enlisted to use his talent to track down the resistance. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
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REVIEW->
I will say upfront that the book is long & not a quick read. Told from multiple POV and switching between timelines, this is set in World War II in Paris & Germany. This book let me experience the lives of both the oppressor and the oppressed during the war.
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Two teenagers are our main protagonist and it is interesting and heartbreaking to perceive the war through their eyes. I like how the author challenged himself by making a visually impaired girl his narrator too. Reading the story through her experiences is unique and written very well. A lot of technical details are included in this book too and the research and acuracy behind them is impressive.
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The characters are intense and this is a book that sucked me in. I was completely invested and sitting on the edge to find out how it all ended. So of course, I was crying at the sadness and beauty of the book by the end.