The Book Thief

There are some books that can both delight and devastate you at the same time....The Book Thief is one of those books. Beautifully, wonderfully written with characters that became instant favourites, but also heart-wrenchingly tragic in the telling. I don't think I will recover from it any time soon. The word-play is nothing short of poetic brilliance and the story-telling is truly the best I've read in a VERY long time - I laughed, I loved, I sobbed and I think my heart broke when I finished the last page.