Quite honestly I can’t stand only a few books that I’ve read, recently The Awakening by Nora Roberts.
Holy crap, do I reallllyyyyy want my money back. I was bored. So. Bored. The magic system was subpar, the characters just….ew, everything was so, so boring. The MC is an idiot.
What book is a zero star read for you?
Isn’t the levity the point of the book? It’s from the perspective of a kid who essentially thinks his dad runs some kind of holiday camp.
Problem is that that misunderstanding is extremely unrealistic. The Nazis heavily indoctrinated children, especially those of their officers. If the story had been reality, Bruno would have been told that inside the camps are “the enemies”.
It’s a serious topic and he tries to write a serious story about it. That makes it especially problematic when important historical facts are missing, misunderstood or changed (for example, you couldn’t just sneak into Auschwitz and a kid in Auschwitz wouldn’t have been sitting around to talk to Bruno in the first place), because people inherently assume that someone writing about this serious topic in a serious way did their research.
I’m also not sure if there’s any way to have a story about the Holocaust that has levity? But I guess that’s a different conversation.