BATB score: 9/10 for Lale's 9 lives #areyouacat My heart hurts for his series of unfortunate events where one's deliberate life goals (a scholar, a good citizen, a millionaire) were reduce to a mere 'to stay alive' within 24 hours. Best for: me to just die from day 1 at the camp - I can not Best as: a reminder that the scariest living thing is us humans and the most horrible things are from what us humans can do and chose to do to us humans #AllLifeMatters Best to: I don't kn

BATB score: 8.8/10 ⭐ From concentration camp to a life sentence in hard-labour camp, how can an innocent 16-year-old girl survive? Shaved (both head and privates), starved, beaten, and raped, how can one still have hope? Best to: read Heather Morris' "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" book first to understand what horrible things already happened and to continue with what other horrible things continued Best for: there's nothing more cruel than the Nazi Concentration Camp 1933-1945

BATB score: 6.3/10 🕶🍻💢 Entertaining historical fiction regarding spies, escapes, murder, and politics during Hitler's regime Best to: great plot, suspenseful flow, and a good number of characters to love and to fear; yet, Rory Clements is your slightly above average authors - not wow. Best for: readers of fiction, he said, she said, gasps, pants, strikes Best as: a substitute leisure activity for screen time coach potatoes 🥔