"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever." 
 Well that was amazing. This is I think my favourite read of the year, no I take that back that I think back this is definitely my favourite book I've read so far in 2015. To say the least I loved it. I loved the writing. I loved the characters. I loved the plot. I LOVED EVERYTHING. 
 The Plot 
 The book is set during WWII, you follow two characters Marie-Laure a blind girl who lives in Paris with her father, and Werner Pfennig an orphan in Germany growing up with his younger sister. The whole book takes place from 1934 and then goes till present day. 
 The book starts and Marie-Laure is 6, her sight has just gone out but she is content. 4 years go by and the war seems to be coming to France, so she and her father leave abruptly to Saint-Marlo to stay with her great-uncle. 
 While Werner and his sister discover a radio and become fascinated by it. they find a radio station of a frenchman teaching court lessons and their fascination grows 
 "What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible." 
 Soon Werner get so into these radio broadcasts and just the radio its self. He starts to make little inventions of his own and become quickly an expert in these radios, so much that he catches peoples attention and gets enlisted to a school where he will be trained for a short while before being sent to use his talent to track down a growing resistance. 
 And the story continues... 
 My Thoughts? 
 I've already said I loved it but I had to say it again. This book perfectly tells a moving story about choosing between was wrong and what's right, it gives you a better understanding of blind people, and a deeper background knowledge of World War II. It makes you think about how it must've been for these people in the 1940s from two perspectives one for a German and of a Frenchman. Marie-Laure, the main character being blind opened up something amazing for me, the author told a story using all the senses save sight and I found it so interesting and new. 
 "When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?" 
 I am basically in love with history and books based around it, I imagine this would be like the book thief (but don't hold me to it because I've never read the book thief) and I'm in love with these types of stories but it wasn't just that, the writing was beautiful I absolutely loved the writing style. I feel like history will always teach you something no matter what and its always worth knowing your past. 
 "You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are." 
 At the end when Marie-Laure and Werner's paths intersect was perfect (everything about this book was perfect) and going into this book I didn't know this would happen but it goes until present day so it shows how everybody's life turns out after the war. Amazing ending. Amazing beginning. And amazing everything in between. 
 "What mazes there are in this world. The branches of trees, the filigree of roots, the matrix of crystals, the streets her father recreated in his models... None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes." 
 So I think everyone should definitely pick up this book, recommended a thousand times over!