Miles

Amazing book that kept me on my toes the whole time. While I got confused at points, that's what kept me wanting more; I needed answers. I love how everything connects back to that first scene at the very beginning and with the picture in one of the classrooms. Everything fit together so nicely without leaving much room to ask questions about how or why. while also not overwhelming you with information. I love Lilias, and honestly she is my favorite character of the book because she got the short end of the dolls' stick and she still lived strong, despite what the dolls told her. And I love how, at the end, we learn that Rebecca isn't evil and that she isn't a threat to the family - well, most of them - but that she wants them to know the truth of her death and the truth of the dolls. Great book, would read again, definitely memorable.

I read this book for one of my classes, and I had originally taken the class just because I needed it for a graduation requirement. But I realized that, had I not taken it, I would not have the perspective on the world that I do now, and I owe much of that credit to this book. I had often read books about war and tyranny and stuff of the like, most of it being fiction. The closest things I had to nonfiction were “Saving Private Ryan” or stories my grandfather seldom told about his time at sea. This was something very different than either of those, I’m uncertain whether it was the detail that allowed my brain to picture it or the fact that this was a story of a real human in real events. No doubt, this book was an eye opener. As I mentioned, I had read war stories before, often fiction, and this tops those because of the nonfiction aspect. Fiction author’s try and try and try to make war stories seem realistic (sometimes), but no matter of events they tell will ever top the knowledge that the things Beah described he actually saw and experienced and did; you can’t make stuff up to that calibre. No person, other than Beah, could have described what he had been through better.