I don't think anyone could praise this book highly enough, but I'm going to do my best...here goes: Many people have probably already explained the story line and blurb so I'm not going to do any of that(not that I ever do anyway). My cousin had previously bought and I suppose read this book so I had already come acroos it once, but I saw it again in a charity shop and even though i thought the blurb was a bit obscure in its description I thought it sounded pretty interesting so I bought it. BEST BOOK EVER!! I savoured every word of every chapter, I could not have enough. The narrator is an unusual one- Death. This story is actually written by the book thief but retold by him with extra bits of information here and there, sometimes information that you wouldn't expect in that part of the book, which is different from the usual books I've read, as of course it makes sense to talk about or narrate things when they're either about to happen(quite soon), are happening or sometimes have already happened. Also, another "special feature" if you like, of it being narrated by Death is that we are told of the many millions of deaths caused by the war. Of course that's not the most joyful thing to read, but I liked it how he always added a thought the one dying was having, or what had happened before or how they didn't deserve to die they way they did. It added character to the person rather than them being just a dying man. I also liked the fact of how Death looked at life, kind of ironic I suppose, I can't explain it but there were always small comments about Liesl or one of the other characters things that you would not at all expect a character such as Death to be noticing or commenting upon. There are moments that you laugh out loud(Rosa: "what are you arseholes looking at?"), others where you just shake your head at the idiocy, the cruelty of humankind but also where you smile at the innocence of young Rudy and Liesl, at the simplicity of the way they had no idea what was actually going on and lastly(at least for me) at the last few pages, you cry. I will not ruin this bit for anyone as it's just too beautiful, but sad. Which I think are the two words that I will use to describe this fantastic book: Beautifully sad. I hope you enjoyed my review :) I definitely think this is a book everyone should read at least once in their lifetimes. Looking forward to read more books from this author in the future :D