I really enjoyed this book, and found myself not being able to put it down. While the writing isn't exactly the best I've ever read, it gets better as the book goes on and Alice deteriorates from minor lapses to forgetting her own life. It really is able to get in her head and show the reader the dizzying lens through which Alice lives her life. Alice and Lydia are easily the best developed characters, and this can leave the rest of the family feeling a little two dimensional. But, overall, you really become emotionally involved in the journey.

It speaks to the level of silence around these atrocities that this is one of the only books I could find about this topic that wasn't just a factual history book. The story was beautiful, I just wish the pacing was better and that they told the full story of their years at the camp rather than only focusing on the first year. Other than that, this was an eye-opening young adult story about resilience.