Decco

I have an interesting story behind this book before my review starts. When I first learnt about the Holocaust when I was about fourteen by looking around on Wikipedia, and I went to my mom asking if she knew what it was, she pivoted, and looked like "It's time for the talk." After a brief lesson on what the Holocaust was, she told me, "You're skipping school tomorrow and coming to the mall with me."

She bought me Night and just simply told me to read it that day. I started in the ride home, and never stopped this memoir. As you're reading it, and you're reading it as if you're experiencing it for the first time, I see why my mom bought it for me the very next day I asked about the Holocaust and what happened.

In my opinion, I think this is one of the most vital books about the Holocaust that's ever been written, and it's one everyone needs to read at least once in their entire lives.

I was never interested in reading that much until I read this book—it was the book that got me into reading.

Back when I was in fifth grade, my older brother bought me this book, saying I would love it. I never touched it for months. However, months later, on his high school graduation day, we had time to kill, and I decided, "What the hell?" I read only the introduction - after that, I was hooked.

The entire book showed vampirism in a way that seemed realistic, and it's written as a twelve-year-old's diary in a verbal way I understood. I didn't look up from the pages for the rest of the night. By the time I finished the book in one setting, I was looking up, seated at my older brother's graduation dinner—I had missed his entire graduation because of this book. How amazing, gripping, and relatable it was.

Years later, it was the book series I introduced both of my cousins to into the genre of horror, and to this day, while I think I have read better, I have mad respect for the series that turned me from a non-book enjoyer to a reading lover.