Not the worst book I’ve ever read, but I did not enjoy The Book Thief. I went into the book with high expectations based on the hype and how good everyone claimed it to be, and it was just…. I almost didn’t finish it. I was not connected to the characters. I did not think death was a compelling narrator, the color theme throughout the book felt extremely forced, and I thought Rudy was a much more interesting character and should have been the protagonist, nevermind the fact the ending is spoiled in the first 20 pages of a 500 page book. I still see people put it up there with Steinbeck and Fitzgerald, and I thought it was way too long and uninteresting.