The Book Thief #1

The amount of detail packed into everything means there are very few one-dimensional minor characters, which adds a trillion more character to the book. It also means you get attached to quite a few of them. I could honestly go on about Hans and Rosa Hubermann, Max Vandenberg, and Rudy Steiner for days. Furthermore, our grim narrator has a very unique way of describing everything, which makes Liesel’s world seem like some kind of impressionist painting, but in a good way. Now, for the book thief herself: outside her title, Liesel is just a girl living her life in Nazi Germany. Life in Nazi Germany is necessarily difficult, but various occurrences make it worse for her.