Review: loosely connected characters and plots that never quite gel 
Sentiment: negative

Review: it is a remarkably original work . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: this would have been better than the fiction it has concocted , and there still could have been room for the war scenes . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: squeeze the action and our emotions into the all-too-familiar dramatic arc of the holocaust escape story 
Sentiment: negative


Review: wide-awake all the way