My book is Annexed by Sharon Dogar. It's like the Diary of Anne Frank, but in Peter Van Pels point of view. It's fiction, but the plot is about the same as what it really was. Their in the Annex still, and the same things are going on but the author tries to make it so it was like what Peter was really thinking. If you've ever read the Diary of Anne Frank, you can see the resemblance.
At first Peter likes this other girl, her name is Liese and right before he goes into the Annex he watches her and her family get taken away by the Nazi's. At first he was heartbroken, and HATED Anne Frank. He thought she was so full of herself and would never shut up. She was those kind of girls that was a know-it-all. But then, as time goes on in the Annex, he realizes she's not half that bad. Then he starts to fall in love with her, as she is in love with him.
What I really like is that this story is based on Anne's diary, which everyone or most everyone knows about. It's all about Anne, and what she thought. But this is different, a different point of view so it's not quite the same. Even though some of it, most of it isn't really what he probably thought, it's still different and really good. There's nothing really that I hate about this book, not yet at least.
The book is 337 pages long, normal readers length. The book I read before this book was about the same length but it really wasn't that interesting to me. It was, but it was pretty boring. If you're into the whole Holocaust deal and how it was like to be in hiding during that time, you'll find it very interesting. The last book I read before I found this one, it took me almost a month to read 100 pages. That's how boring and slow-paced it was to me. Then I started reading this book and within a week I've read 100 pages. Plus I'm only reading it in school when I get done with my work or durring SSR.
The structure is normal, it doesn't have chapters though. It's like Anne's diary, it has days. So I guess you can consider them to be 'chapters'. But they're really short chapters. If you don't like the chapter length in normal books, you'll like this because it's one in a half pages long each 'chapter'. The longest 'chapter' I've had so far in it was like, three/ four in a half pages. It goes by really quick.
"These are my memories. I cannot stop them coming.
If I lay them before you, will you believe them?
You, who reamin on the outside?
Are you listening?
In the Annex, I could wake up from my dreams---
But in the camps the dream never ends. I wake up and the nightmare is real.
I can't really believe it is happening myself, so why should you?
Do you?
Will you notice that I'm missing--or that the street looks strangely empty?
Ach! She made the right decision, that woman.
She didn't need her suitcase where she was going.
But then again, she didn't need her child either." Page 81.
