I think Night is wonderful and Dawn has an interesting discussion on terrorism, but there wasn't a whole lot in Day that hit me hard. It seemed a lot more meandering and less focused than the previous two books.

It almost feels like a cross between a novel and nonfiction. It's very clearly not nonfiction, but Wiesel seems to be taking a lot from his life. Not only do they share a past, but Wiesel himself was in a car accident, the same as the narrator. He says the suicide aspect was fiction, but that's not really something I'd speculate about either way. In general, it came across as kind of fanfiction for real life, twisted just enough to turn it into a compelling story, but largely his own story. And it didn't really work for me.

There were moments in this that were incredibly worthwhile, but they did boil down to just moments, single lines that felt powerful, where Night and Dawn were both powerful as a whole. One line that stuck out to me (I can't quote because I didn't save the page) was when he said it's impossible to write a novel about Auschwitz- if it's about Auschwitz, then it's not fiction. If it's fiction, then it's not about Auschwitz. There were loads of moments like that throughout this book that hit me hard, but moments don't make a whole book for me.

The second page had a scene that made me super uncomfortable, when the girlfriend gets catcalled by sailors and is made uncomfortable by it. The main character says she should be flattered and that sailors see women with their mouths, not their eyes. Obviously not something that ruined the book, but that scene just seemed so gross and unnecessary. It was such a bad way to begin the book.

Just in general, I didn't love this one the way I did the first two. It took me five days to read and that's a lot for a book that's just barely over a hundred pages. I don't think this trilogy really needed to be marketed as such. They're tied together in that they're three characters who were in concentration camps during the Holocaust and have some similar themes, but nothing else. I would highly recommend reading the first two, and you might as well pick up this one if you enjoyed those. I still feel like it was worth a read, even if there wasn't a lot in it that I found particularly compelling.