That's not the first time I say this, nor will it be the last: I cannot review books I like. I turn into a 12 year old girl, I promise. I'm sorry. 
 So yes, I loved this book. I won't say about what it is, since 90% of you already know (a young girl in a German town near Munich during WW2), and I'll jump to what I particularly love: 
 The setting, the characters, how they grow and change, and, especially, the relationships they have with each other. I adore books about love that is not romantic, I mean, family, friendship! I don't know if I believe in true-love and all that, but I do believe in loving your family. Whatever kind of family, of course. Papa Hans was the most touching character of the universe, but I loved equally the relationship between Mama and Liesel, between the Hubermanns and Max, and the family with their neighbours, especially with the Steiners and Rudy. These characters felt real and incredibly fantastic at the same time. 
 I am not sure that it was necessary for Death to be the narrator -- in the only crucial moments when it shows (the beginning, and those hiatus with foreshadowing) I loved it, though. Contrary to some people (I think), the foreshadow didn't ruin anything for me. Knowing what is going to happen is not the same than seeing it happen. Gosh, how I cried! A lot! But I did not feel like the author was playing me, trying to make me cry for the sake of crying. I believed him until the end. 
 I heard somebody say how this was a book about WW2 from the bad guys POV. It made me furious, of course. This book is not about bad guys, is about normal people who find themselves in a nazi country and do what they can to survive. It has nothing to do with being bad or good. They are civilians, some of them jackass and some of them not, all with flaws and none perfect. 
 Also, theory (view spoiler)[: I know what I just said about romantic love and how I don't think it is necessary to have it in every book or to turn every friendship into it. AND YET. Please go to the end, chapter "Death and Liesel", and read this: 
 In her final visions, she saw her three children, her grandchildren, her husband, and the long list of lives that merged with hers. Among them, lit like lanterns, were Hans and Rosa Hubermann, her brother, and the boy whose hair remainedd the color of lemons forever. 
 It seems VERY odd to me that there's no mention to Max, no final though dedicated to him in her last moments. COULD IT BE: he is her husband? And that's all I'll say. (hide spoiler)]