All the Light We Cannot See

At first, i wondered why this book is rated so high? This is just normal. It reminded me a bit of And the mountains echoed . There were pieces of story, all cute. And then it hit me, this a war story. War stories are about terror and tragedy; and once in a blue moon, about romantic love.
This book is filled with beautiful imagery, little acts of kindness, little acts of faith, innocence and gullibility of childhood. Now, it, to be this beautiful, let alone a war story, for it to be even a children's book, is a feat.
It's like this beautiful bubble, though surrounded by impending doom, trumps it circumstances with its beauty.
When it comes to this darkness of the early 1940s, this book pictures the light we never see.