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Book Review of I Am the Messenger

I Am the Messenger
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I absolutely adore this book. It gets better every time I reread it. It's one of those books that's honestly hard to describe or explain why I like it. It just has to be experienced. Zusak is a brilliant writer with a real gift for shaping the English language effectively. I'll admit that I wasn't quite sure what to make of it when I first started reading it, and parts of it are a little hard to get through. But trust me when I say that it gets better the further you go, and even better with each rereading. When I first read this book, it made it into my top 10 favorite novels. The second time I read it, it went into my top 5. A severely underrated must-read.