Quick! Thoughts about Anthony Doerr's "All The Light We Cannot See"

This won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015. Has anyone read it? What did you think?

What's it about?

The book jumps around in time in various points during World War II in France and Germany. In one storyline, a blind girl named Marie-Laure flees with her father to Saint-Malo with a diamond from a museum. They are pursued by a Nazi sergeant who wants the diamond.

The other storyline is Werner Pfennig's a young, small boy who grows up an orphan in a mining town in Germany. He has an aptitude for radio, and is taken to evil Nazi school to join the Hitler youth, hone his interests and help invent a tool for finding rebels transmitting contraband radio broadcasts. He experiences doubts about what he is asked to do.

Pros: The writing was eloquent, the allusions to "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" were really cool, had strong scientific and math elements that clearly took some research and knowledge on the author's part. Did I mention the writing? It was so immersive. Since one of the main characters was blind, the author relied on other sensations to describe what was going on. It was an experience.

Cons: The nonlinear structure made the book spoil itself a few times, like, "Oh no, this character is in danger, but in a previous scene set in the future, they're alive, so I know they can't die here." Time jumping is fine, but you have to know it sucks the life out of scenes that are meant to be life-or-death tense and harrowing. It was a WWII book, so there were Nazis. So many Nazis painted humanely. This book was written in the halcyon days of 2015, when compassionate depictions of Nazis were mostly fine, but in today's political climate it wasn't great, especially today, with the terrorism in New Zealand occupying my thoughts.

Final thoughts: I don't normally gravitate toward historical fiction, but this book was really good. I can imagine WWII buffs possibly enjoying it. Afterward, I looked at pictures of Saint-Malo and read about some of the history behind it.

Quotes: 

"How do you fight a system? You try."

"God's truth? How long do these intolerable moments last for God? A trillionth of a second? The very life of any creature is a quick, fading spark in fathomless darkness. That's God's truth."

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."