Beautiful and heartbreaking. This story with this point of view could not have been easy to write, but it was masterfully told.

There are not many authors who could write a book like this and have it be so full of humanity. What a great book!
well written and totally absorbing. I read this in 24 hrs and loved every minute of it. Such a great author!

When reading All The Broken Places, I realized that I did not enjoy John Boyne’s writing. I never connected with the characters, didn’t like the structure and felt that it was bland. Come to find out there was a reason for that: I didn’t like his first book.

I did not realize this was a sequel to The Boy In The Striped Pajamas until I was researching it and as a history major I do not enjoy that book because it, in my opinion, trivializes the Holocaust and says that not all Nazis were bad. I agree that some soldiers were not “all evil” but the commandants of the concentration camps were vile and evil and trying to humanize them is not what I enjoy reading.

All The Broken Places is not a good book because I felt it continued the problems of Striped Pajamas: unlike able characters and a bad story.

Overall I did not enjoy this book and probably won’t read anything else that Boyne writes.