![]() ![]() I loved that the author chose to write about teenagers and that one of the main characters was blind actually enhanced the book for me. The characters were all well developed and I really got to know them. ![]() One reviewer said that if you didn't like it, then you must be jealous of the author. I'm embarrassed and a little afraid to admit I was not a big fan of this book. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge.Īfraid to Write a "Less-Than-Positive" Review Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. When she is 12, 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. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. Winner of the 2015 Audie Award for Fiction ![]()
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