It was a very powerful novel, with equal parts terrifying, devastating, and horrifying. 
 However, it's just not the sort of thing that I would normally read, and I didn't enjoy it that much. To be honest, if I didn't have to read it for school, I probably would have put it down at some point, and wouldn't have even picked it up in the first place. But all in all I'm glad that I did read it and got the perspective of somebody who had to live through such terrible times.