Susan’s Reviews > The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story > Status Update

This has 323 pages, but there are notes and references at the end. I've read up to pg 189, almost 60%. Some of the stories are labored, with far too many names thrown in (artists, gardeners, underground helpers, conspirators against the Nazis, etc. It really deserves a stronger writer, I think to pull off the remarkable zoo, the owners, and it's inhabitants.

Ackerman's writing is a bit dry, which surprises me considering the tremendous story she's telling about real people and the bombing of Warsaw.

Based on a real zoo in Warsaw as Germany roared in to split it with Russia. Wonderful descriptions of the animals and the loving caretakers.