First the colors, then the humans. That's how our unusual narrator (Death) begin the story. When I started reading this book, I just wondered about the color of my soul. Maybe light green, or orange, like the sunset. But that's not important right now. Let's just focus on the book.

This story is about Liesel Memminger, a girl who stole books. She stole a book from a cemetery, and also from a big fire at the square. Liesel used to have a brother. She also used to have a mother, but now she's adopted. Her new papa has liquid-silver eyes, and he played the accordion. Her new mama was as big as a closet. She always cooked soup. Always the same dreadful soup.

Liesel had friends, too; a guy with yellow-lemon hair who loved to run. And she also had a Jewish friend. He used to live in the basement. This Jewish friend had hair like feathers, and he gave her a very special couple of books.

And how did Death know all of this?

Well, she found Liesel's diary between smoke and debris after a bombing.

This book shows us a different point of view about the Nazis in Germany. Generally we think that only Jewish suffered, but in this story I realized that Germans suffered too; because they were so poor because of the war, or because they lost someone they loved because of the war.

The story is beautiful and sad, at the same time. It mixes your emotions; you feel sad, and angry, and suddenly very happy and hopeful, and then you get sad again. But anyway, it's wonderful.

You HAVE TO read this book if you're over 12 years old. Happy reading!

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