The tattooist of Auschwitz

Occasionally, the students at work bring up books that sound so compelling that I am forced to come down from my tower of light fantasy and science fiction reads for a diet of something a little more substantive.

This was ... harrowing. Heather's done a superb job of blending the very worst Humanity has to offer with the stubbornness and tenacity our species is known for; in burying kindness and what we all like to call "Humanity" within the depravity of an era of cruelty we all like to hope is behind us. However you slice it though, this is a book to bring a tear to your eye and to serve as a reminder never to forget the atrocities that were committed in the name of racial purity.

Occasionally, the students at work bring up books that sound so compelling that I am forced to come down from my tower of light fantasy and science fiction reads for a diet of something a little more substantive.

This was ... harrowing. Heather's done a superb job of blending the very worst Humanity has to offer with the stubbornness and tenacity our species is known for; in burying kindness and what we all like to call "Humanity" within the depravity of an era of cruelty we all like to hope is behind us. However you slice it though, this is a book to bring a tear to your eye and to serve as a reminder never to forget the atrocities that were committed in the name of racial purity.