Great plot line. Very interesting and philosophical. But very poorly written. Would not recommend if you are annoyed by bad writing. The young girl who is the protagonist of this book is portrayed as very ignorant and angry, which I don't think that she is. Don't think that the author did a good job portraying the thoughts and feelings of the protagonist.
This book is very weird in that It is non fiction written in the 3rd person. Normally this would not be weird, but since the person whom this was written about is still alive it is. The author uses quotes from the actual girl and then talks about her in 3rd person, and frankly its not done very well. Would not read again. SHOULD HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN 1ST PERSON. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 10 TIMES BETTER.
The general message of this book is good but it is poorly written. It is kind of like the author wrote in one weekend and didn't go back to edit it.
The moral message of this book was not well presented. But the facts were. ( )

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

To Look a Nazi in the Eye is a Canadian university student's eyewitness account of the trial of Oskar Groening, charged with complicity in the deaths of over 300,000 Jews in Auschwitz. The granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, Jordana Lebowitz feels compelled to travel to Germany and experience firsthand the prosecution of a war criminal, spending a week immersed in emotional courtroom proceedings and listening to devastating accounts of survivors.

This is a quick read, and an important one, for the historical context and its representation of a new generation of involvement in Holocaust-related accountability. However, the stilted writing style and unnatural choice of framing this in a third-person narrative detracted from such an influential story. The brief snippets of Jordana's blog posts that she penned while attending the trial have a stronger pull than the disconnected writing of the book and I think a heavier reliance on her original voice would have offered a more compelling, and less detached, narrative. Jordana's experience is unique and powerful, but unfortunately this account does not do her, nor her story, justice. ( )