I was never a fan of The Book Thief so when Bridge of Clay was assigned as the next book for book club, I wasn’t looking forward to it. It has taken Markus Zusak thirteen years to follow up The Book Thief and I personally feel like this was a little haphazard. I was not a fan of the written style at all and words were used so frequently it begins to be grating. The word “murderer” was used frequently it lost all meaning to me. Then when finding out the murderers name, his full name got used every few lines when others didn’t. I don’t understand why Zusak felt that we needed to be constantly reminded of this one character full name. Also I feel like this book encapsulated everything I hate about teenage boys.