"Between Shades of Gray" Book Review

Wow I’m back again hehehe

And with another English version of my book review

The title of the book is “Between Shades of Gray”

 

SYNOPSIS

This book tells a story following the life of Lina, a painter girl from Lithuania, that has to be deported from her own country and forced to work as a slave. Not only she and her family, there are also thousands of people from different ages and condition that has the same fate. At first they don’t know one another, but as they struggle together to stay alive they get closer like a family that protect and take care of each other. And as the situation got worsened and their number decreasing, the world feels darker than it was before. Is the littlest hope that they carefully save inside their heart enough to make them holding on and fight for surviving?

 

REVIEW

This novel is just so beautiful

It’s elegant yet cruel, full of despair but also contains a lot of hope in between

But really, I already got captivated from the first page

I actually really love books or movies about war, even more if it’s based on real history

And this book is one of the best (thumbs up)

 

The strength of this book in my opinion is the writing style

Every sentence is beautifully written and the selection of words is also nicely done

So it feels so smooth following the storyline, even though it was pretty fast paced

I especially love how this book can convey every character’s feeling

There are a lot of side characters, and even though the main POV is Lina, we’ll still be able to feel what other character feels

And the writing about the events that happen to the deportees make it feels so real

Maybe because even though this book’s genre is historical fiction, the author did a research from the survived deportees or their family members that still alive. So this fiction book is based on real fact

And we’ll get that goosebumps and sad but awe felling when we’re reading it

 

I really can’t imagine how these people live at that time

They have to do hard physical work in the morning but only got little food ration…

They can’t sleep peacefully…

In winter they didn’t get a coat or anything warm…

If one of them is sick they didn’t get proper treatment…

And yet some of them survives

 

There are several scenes that I like

Especially scenes that show how these deportees bond together and keep each other’s back

There is also the fact that most of this deportees are educated people

In war, educated people and their families is considered enemy

And it just feels so real

We can feel how expensive it is to have an opinion. People’s mind can be used as a weapon so a lot of smart people got captured

 

Overall, it was a great experience

I’ll save this novel and maybe read it again later :)

I recommended this book for anyone who likes war genre, you won’t regret it

And for someone who doesn’t like it, it’s ok to read it too

Cause this book is about human

We as a human must have thought, how far is our limit when it comes to enduring suffering

Human is created to survive, even though it seems like we don’t have anything, sometimes the thing that we can’t see can be a source of strength for us

Like relationship that we built with another person or hope that we save in our heart

Happy Reading ^ ^

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