Sharon Dogar

As a young girl who read Anne Frank's Diary, of course I wanted more of Peter. i always want more young, angsty love stories! And this isn't the first fictionalization I’ve read from Peter's POV, there was also [The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank]. Honestly, I don't remember that one enough to compare the two. But I did really enjoy this one. It kind of snuck up on me, one of those quiet, unassuming books that you blink and they are over with. I liked not only having his perspective but also the inclusion of his parents too.… (more)

[This is a review I wrote in 2011]

**Sensitively written**

This is a delicately and sensitively written novel of Peter van Pels, the teenage boy who spent two years hiding in the Amsterdam annexe with his family and the Franks. The fictionalised story of Peter and his growing affections for Anne, together with the account of life after the annexe in the camps of Westerbork and Auschwitz, complements Anne's diary and is an accessible introduction to the subject of the Nazi death camps, for young adults.

Well written, well thought out. Overall, a good companion volume to Anne's diary though children and adults alike should be reminded that this is still very much a fictionalised account of events, and not a historical account.… (more)