All the light we cannot see

If you like fiction, if you like history, and if you like books where the events all crazily tie together in the end, this is the novel for you.

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and it's quite easy to see why. This book is amazing!

It takes place in both Germany and France across the several years encompassing World War II. Our main characters are Marie-Laure, an intelligent blind French girl with a love of sea creatures, and Werner, a young German orphan with a penchant for radio mechanics who becomes part of the Hitler Youth due to his skills.

Their stories seem like they will never intersect until they do, in this booming, intense climax. I was so captivated that I read the last 100 pages in four hours.

I know what you're thinking. Do we really need another book about WW II? We've already read The Book Thief and the diary of Anne Frank. But this book is worth it.

Doerr knew how to put me right in the middle of the action in a way I've personally never experienced before. I was with Werner in the large hot room of crimson flags learning what it means to be German and I was with Marie-Laure in the Saint-Malo grotto, touching snails and smelling the sea.

The story starts slow, building up the way life gradually builds up. The action doesn't happen all all at once. But once it did, every page I had read before that suddenly made sense in a whole new way.

I can't even do this novel justice by writing about it. Honestly, you're going to have to read it and be enthralled for yourself.