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This book is important and details how a couple managed to fall in love in the most hostile place imaginable. Lily Wüst is a married woman with children living an unfullfilling live in the Nazi capital with her children. Felice Schragenheim is a young jewish woman living covertly to avoid deportation.

During a nazi program showing young woman how to have a family Felice meets Lily and slowly starts falling in love. Both of them get to know each other and eventually become a couple. Navigating the risks of daily bombardment and potential deportation the two try everything to stay together. Interviews with witnesses and Lily enable the reader to understand what life was like for an unwanted couple in the darkest times of humanity.

The author critically reflects Lilly and her political views and her antisemitism. Readers might get to understand what some people in Germany thought and did during the last years of the third reich.

First of all I really admire Joshua Wong and respect his efforts in fighting for democracy.

This book broadly has 3 parts. The introduction describes Joshua Wong's life and Hong Kong (HK) politics up to the protests for democracy. During this we get a good explanation of how HK is governed and how its' autonomy is reduced and replaced with mainland chinese laws.

After that we get a diary from Joshua Wong which he wrote during his prison time detailing his time there and how he stays informed of the situation in HK and tries to fight for democracy out of his cell.

The end of the book consists of a manifesto for democracy and a call to action for every citizen to stand of for their rights.

Well what I like is that we get a good look at who Joshua Wong is and what he believes in. Unfortunately the structure of the book sometimes seems a bit unfitting and the manifesto a bit unclear at times. Also I don't like how mainland chinese people are partly portrayed as being less behaved than HKers. I can understand why he might feel like this but I don't believe he is doing himself any favors.

Due to this I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. But if you're interested in Joshua Wong or want to read a bit about the HK protests this might interest you!

I decided to read this as I was interested in the dark atmosphere and intriging world. And in that aspect the book definitely delivered. The muscovy Metro is split into different factions with internal conflicts determining the actions of their leaders thus shaping the whole Metro. Unfortunately there are regular crises demanding cooperation of conflicting factions ... what a set up!

The introduction to the mc was also grabbing my attention. However, to establish the factions the mc has to at least pass them by which leads to a drawn out story. In my opinion it sometimes feels like the author prioritised showing of this cool world instead of writing a tense story. And I thought some scenes were really weird but that might just be me. However there were moments which stayed in my head and I really appreciated. And towards the end the book feels a bit like rushing towards the finish line.

Well if you're interested in the world you should definitely think about picking this up! Especially if you want an adventure discovering a post-apocalyptic Metro.