Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys Review

Salt to the Sea is based during WW2 and centered around four people. Three of which are on their way to a port in which Wihelm Gustloff is based, and the fourth of which is working on it.

I found this book interesting, as it tells the struggles of those its based on, but than it got really interesting as they were trying to board Wihelm Gustloff. Each chapter is told by in the view of a different person. Something else worth mentioning is that each chapter is only three or four pages long at most, with some only being one page long.

I found myself wanting to know more about Wihelm Gustloff. The book mentions what happens to the ship in the view of the characters, but if you want to know more you will have to go off and do your own research.

We Were Liars Review

I just finished reading We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. It look me all of two days to read and I did not see the plot twist at the end coming.

We Were Liars is about a girl who goes to stay on a island that her family owns for the summer. Something that her family has always done. By her family I mean her grandfather, aunts, cousins and so on. Two summers earlier something happened and she can't remember what. This is due to receiving a head injury that summer. She spends the whole summer trying to find out what happened because she wants to know but no one is telling her.

I found this book really interesting. I could not put it down and I just wanted to know what happened. Than the plot twist happened and I was not ready for it. I kind of felt like I needed a moment to fully take in what just happened. I knew that there was a plot twist, but I didn't know what it was or just how big it would be. For me I kind of feel like the twist made it. The rest of the book is pretty good, but the ending made it.

I also found it was a really fast paced book. It doesn't focus on one thing for long. I think this helps the book to seem faster and helped me to finish it in two days.