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Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys

Start date: March 1, 2017

Finish date: March 31, 2017

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Oct 12, 2015 Lynndell rated it it was amazing

Shelves: advanced-reading-copy, netgalley-ebook, historical-fiction

Thanks to NetGalley and Philomel Books, (Penguin Group), for the advanced reading copy of Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys! This historical fiction story contains many points of view. Many aspects of World War II are told throughout the book as refugees make their way to the ships that will take them to a safer place. Ruta Sepetys places factual information at the end of her historical fiction books and I enjoy knowing what truly took place, how she accomplished her research and the list of the r ...more

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Jan 28, 2020 Brianna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, read-in-2020, audiobooks-i-listened-to, young-adult, 2016-release-date, danika

Salt to the Sea was another great historical fiction from Ruta Sepetys. The focus of this one was definitely the characters. I was a little concerned going into it that the mass number of perspectives would hinder my enjoyment, but I adored every single perspective equally which is so rare for me.

Looking back, not much happened in this book, but most of the time I did not care. A couple of times the book did drag a little (hence the 4 stars, rather than 5), but overall this was a lovely read!

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Mar 16, 2017 Christina rated it it was ok

Shelves: historical-fiction

I can barely get through a book when it has two differing points of view. This book has four.

I found it immensely hard to keep track of who was doing what. The author made it incredibly difficult to keep me focused. It took me forever to finish this, as I could not get through two or three pages without being bored out of my mind with the writing/constant POV switch.

I feel like a lot of details were left out and could have been added if the author wasn't so focused on creating all these view po ...more

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Mar 14, 2020 Taisha Casimir rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: recommend-to-someone, read-in-2020, book-reviews, 5-stars

It was a good read. It was nice that after the book, you learned the history behind the boat. This book was heart wrenching to read. The ending was really sad. I would recommend reading this book. 5 stars :)

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