Title: White Rose
Author: Kip Wilson
Rating Out of 5: 4 (Really good read!)
My Bookshelves: Historical fiction, Poetry, War
Pace: Slow
Format: eBook, Novel
Year: 2019

This was a whole story, written entirely in verse. Which I’ve never really had the pleasure of reading something like this before. I’ve read collections of poems, but not the entirety of a story being told in poems. I wasn’t sure what I was going to think, but I found that I really loved this. The lyricality of it was just beautiful and made a pretty sensitive topic a little bit more palatable.

White Rose is based on the true story of peaceful resistance to the Nazi regime in WWII. I honeslty didn’t know this was something that had happened, and I loved reading about it. Something about the beauty and lyricality of the words made the horrors of what I was actually reading a little less painful. On the surface, it also made the emotionality of it all a whole lot more intense.

I really enjoyed this novel, although I probably won’t read it again. It was fairly intense, and the flickering of the timelines really made me think in depth about the results of the Nazi regime and all of its horrors. Not something that I want to sit in for too long if I’m honest. I normally read as an escape from reality, not to remind me how much people suck.

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