The Girl Who Escaped Auschwitz, a novel based on the true story of Mala Zimetbaum, was definitely a compelling story. It added a great layer to the stories of Auschwitz-Birkenau and told of the sacrifice, tenacity and hope of the prisoners in the camps.

The only drawback for me in the book is I felt it was a little wordy and a more work than it needed to be. The author often weaved decent-sized sections of backstories or the characters’ reminiscing right in between the dialogue in a conversation, but then jump right back into the other side of the conversation. It was so much off-topic by then that I often had to go back and read again what the characters were talking about in the first place because it side tracked so much. It felt a little more complicated than it needed to be and made the story drag on a bit for me.

Thanks to Netgalley for the early read in exchange for an honest review.