The Zookeeper's Wife

I was surprised how much I enjoyed this book. I'd been vaguely interested in it because of the WW2 angle and from my friends' reviews, but have been putting off reading it for awhile.

I mostly read via the audiobook from the library, and the narrator was one of the best I've ever listened to. That's partly what helped the book gain a five-star rating.

I was a zoo aficionado as a kid. I loved zoos so much that my family had a national zoo membership and we did zoo tourism. :) I'd pick a zoo over a theme park any day! So all the zoological detail in the book was really interesting and vivid to me.

Then all the WW2 stuff just had me on the edge of my seat. The sheer odds against this couple were overwhelming, and I kept expecting horrible things to happen (which they did, of course, but not as horrible as they could have been). I loved all the Resistance details!

Highly recommended.