Hello everyone! 

            Today I would like to represent you a fascinating book “Between shades of gray” by Ruta Sepetys. I have read this book before because I am enjoying only those books which are related with second world war. The book talks about people abuse, violence, bullying, hunger, cold and other dark sides of exile. But, whatever it desperate situation of human remains extraordinary spiritual side. Hope and faith that someday things will be fine. This book is a historical fiction that starts in Lithuania in 1941, when main character Lina, her brother, mother, and father have all been captured by secret Soviet police and being taken to concentration camps. The main thing of this story is that father is separated of his family members, so Lina is trying to find him. 

                  The writing of this book was really beautiful and I found it very interesting. It did justice to the story, so I felt like it really fit the story well. Ruta Sepetys kind of made the story available universally, what is very reasonable, because it’s a story that you don’t hear often, what exactly happened in Lithuania in  World War two. I was very surprised by reading that when father is separated from his family, the main character Lina is trying to find her father and she’s moving from concentration camp to concentration camp on  her way to Siberia and she is using her skills with art and drawing to try leave clues behind to lead him to her after what they can be reunited once this is all over. 

I am looking to read more books which are related with wars, love in war where life is changing dramatically. 

Ernest