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 Oh my gosh. I love this book so much. At first, it took me a while to get into. I would pick it up, read a couple pages, put it down, and go to another book. But soon I started getting really into it. I stayed up till 3 to finish it. I cried so much near the end, when Rudy Stiener, Rosa, Papa, and everyone else on Himmel street except Liesel died. I knew it was coming. The narrator, death, didn't try to hide the fact. But that didn't make it any less tearful when it happened. I love how she married and found happiness and had kids and grandkids. It's hard to describe, and this review sounds lame and incomplete. It's just something you have to read to be able to understand.