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(3.5/5)

i'm starting to worry that my own expectations are slowly becoming my downfall.

because this book ?? it wasn't as good as i was anticipating it to be.

and i'm extremely sad about that.

for starters, i didn't feel as intense of an emotional connection with the characters of this book as i usually do in ruta sepetys' books, and for me, that was the worst part of it. it's not that i couldn't imagine the horrors of what they were experiencing and of what the people during this time experienced, but rather, the writing itself and the pacing of the novel was incapable of portraying those emotions in a poignant way.

that being said, however, there was a lot that i did like.

despite having taken a world history class and an american history class, both of which placed special emphasis on the outcome of wwii and the cold war, especially with the spread of communism during that time, i had never even so much as heard about communism in romania, nor its deleterious effects on the people, or the revolution that followed, before i read this book. all of which, of course, made me wonder how much of the world and its history i remain ignorant of.

this book definitely made me think, and i really like that about it. and while i do think that some of the characters could have been better developed, the story made for interesting reading and will probably live rent-free in my head for the next couple of weeks.

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I'M SCREAMING FEBRUARY SEEMS SO FAR AWAY