This book started of different to me than most of the books we read. It starts off with the danger and the problem right in the beginning. You don’t get to know each character as a person or see what they about it straight to the disaster. Which can be a good or bad thing depending on the reader. To me it was a good thing because there was no sugar coding, no one was painting a false picture it went straight to it and told it exactly how it was.
My heart really goes out to Rosa having to try to nurture a baby while going through both physical and mental abuse. Having to protect her baby from the enemies and her own kind all at once because the enemy would have killed her and her own kind wanted to eat her. I can’t imagine the pain she felt when all she wanted to do was run and save her baby but could only sit in watch because it would have been her life. At the same time to me Rosa watching Magda die was the death of herself as well. In a sense it killed her spirit. I believe the only way she kept pushing was to pretend as if her daughter was still living. No one knows how it really feels to have everything taken away from you, and loose hope. Then to have a child which is the only thing you have to love and love you unconditionally and to then have that taken away. That is horrible and I don’t fault Rosa. Rosa she is just like every other mother in the world who wants nothing more than to love her child. It is wrong for people to judge her because of it, give titles and think of her as crazy. She is human and every human has emotion and reacts to any situation they been in.
