The Book Thief was not exactly what I expected. I expected a happy ending just because that is how most books are, everyone lives happily ever after. This is definitely not how The Book Thief ends. This story is no fairy-tale and nobody has a happily ever after. Sure some may survive in the end, meaning that they survived World War 2. But, if they were someone who survived the war, this still means they have to live everyday with the memory of it and of everyone they knew and loved that did not survive. The truth is that nobody has a happily ever after in real life. Even though I expected all the characters to live and everyone to live happily ever after, I enjoyed the fact that the book did not end that way. I liked the fact that this book was brutally honest. It made it seem real. I mean, World War 2 was real, and the book was real too. I liked the idea of the story of Liesel seemed like something that could have really happened. I don’t think I would change anything about the book, even the fact that the narrator is Death. Death as the narrator was an ironic twist on the story. Especially with the setting, the Holocaust. The Holocaust was something that really did happen but at the same time it seems like a dystopian society to me. Maybe this is because it is hard for me to believe that people would actually do this to other people. How people wanted to, “Put an end to the disease that has been spread through Germany for the last twenty years, if not more!” referring to the “disease” as actual human beings that are just a different religion, along with many other certain people. (Zusak 110). I think this is why this history interests me so much. I would recommend The Book Thief to anyone who enjoys reading, especially those that are also intrigued by World War 2 and the Holocaust. In my opinion it is a great book and I would honestly recommend it to fellow book loving people.