Review: I am the Messenger

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


I didn't think I could love a Markus Zusak book more than I already love The Book Thief, but I am the Messenger comes very, very close.

Zusak has this amazing way with language. His descriptions, his characters words, all of it is so well chosen and beautiful. It adds to the world of his fiction, bringing it to life and drawing the reader in.

And it is very hard not to get drawn into Ed's world. Here is this stalled nineteen year old, thrust into something more as each card arrives and he delivers each message, and the reader sits on the edge of their seat as they go with Ed to each address, to each person.

Until the end.

And what an end. It isn't every day that the book sums itself up as succinctly and beautifully as I am the Messenger does:

( spoiler )

"Keep living...It's only the pages that stop here."



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