Broken Angels

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A Nazi doctor A Jewish rebel A little girl Each one will fight for freedom or die trying.Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother s desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face to face with the impossibility of their situation Risking her own life, Elsi joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime.Blonde, blue eyed Matilda is wrenched from her family in Romania and taken to Germany, where her captors attempt to mold her into the perfect Aryan child Spirited and brave, she must inspire hope in the other stolen children to make her dreams of escape a reality.Willem, a high ranking Nazi doctor, plans to save lives when he takes posts in both the ghetto and Auschwitz After witnessing unimaginable cruelties, he begins to question his role and the future of those he is ordered to destroy.While Hitler ransacks Europe in pursuit of a pure German race, the lives of three broken souls thrown together by chance intertwine Only love and sacrifice might make them whole again. Download Broken Angels Author Gemma Liviero – kino-fada.fr I feel badly not rating this well I know the stories of these three people were based on experiences that people in the Holocaust actually suffered, but I m trying to rate this as a work of fiction And as a work of fiction I struggled to finish I almost gave up at the 30 40% mark The first 30% was almost just building backstory The book picks up in the middle of the war so Elsi is already in the ghetto and her father is gone and Willem is a high ranking Nazi officer working as a women s doc I feel badly not rating this well I know the stories of these three people were based on experiences that people in the Holocaust actually suffered, but I m trying to rate this as a work of fiction And as a work of fiction I struggled to finish I almost gave up at the 30 40% mark The first 30% was almost just building backstory The book picks up in the middle of the war so Elsi is already in the ghetto and her father is gone and Willem is a high ranking Nazi office...Another Lake Union winner I found this book both captivating and emotionally riveting I listened to it on audio, and the narrators did a fabulous job with the emotion as well as all the different characters Fans of Lilac Girls, I think you would enjoy this one, too I would definitel...I loved this book It kept me turning the pages to find out what happened A story of nazi germany 1 man 1 woman 1 child and their stories Heartbreaking at times but so worth the ending had me crying at the endI loved this book At some points the subject matter was hard to read, especially the parents where the doctors were subjecting the women to cruel experiments in Auschwitz How ever awful it was to read, it was worse knowing that this stuff really happened to so many people By chance, Elsi met Willem when she brought her mothe...4.44 stars I waffled between giving this novel a 4 or 5 star rating A year ago, I would have probably given it a full five However, as I ve becomeactive here on GR this year, etc., I have also growndiscerning with my ratings Just a short explanation update Bro...Books like these are harder to review because they deal with real events that happened to real humans, there s no beautifying the horrors or romanticizing the hardships that the people of that time had underwent.That being said, I m reading a fictional novel not a historical textbook, I m expecting to findthan mere narration of horror after horrorThe beautiful writing and the small nuances that make The Book Thief and The Nightingale beautiful masterpieces even though they deal with the Books like these are harder to review because they deal with real events that happened to real humans, there s no beautifying the horrors or romanticizing the hardships that the people of that time had underwent.That being said, I m reading a fictional novel not a historical textbook, I m expecting to findthan mere narration of horror after horrorThe beautiful writing and the small nuances that make The Book Thief and The Nightingale beautiful masterpieces even though they deal with the same harsh reality are absent in Broken Angels The 3 main characters, even though are all kind, generous and intelligent, seem to just blend together, especially with the constant use of first person speech throughout the whole novel.Finally, it kept dragging on and on with most of the plot focused on chara...Three different characters from different countries with different beliefs whose lives come together in 1942, who manage to find solace through hope and love 15 year old Elsi, barely surviving in the Jewish ghetto of Lodz, with her mother and sister, scared of betrayal and being sent to work camp, like her father Her mother has sold herself to the German masters to keep her family safe, becoming pregnant and trying to self terminate the pregnancy Elsi takes to the medical center where she m Three different characters from different countries with different beliefs whose lives come together in 1942, who manage to find solace through hope and love 15 year old Elsi, barely surviving in the Jewish ghetto of Lodz, with her mother and sister, scared of betrayal and being sent to work camp, like her father Her mother has sold herself to the German masters to keep her family safe, ...4.5 stars easily Almost 5 I often read in short snatches, while I m cooking or waiting in line, in short intervals between other tasks or activities I find that many books can t hold my attention for long periods of time But last night I was reading Broken Angels on the bus home from work, a 30 minute trip I didn t notice any of I almost missed my stop I held my Kindle up to the streetlights as I walked the rest of the way home When I got in, I didn t turn on music I didn t change clothe 4.5 stars easily Almost 5 I often read in short snatches, while I m cooking or waiting in line, in short intervals between other tasks or activities I find that many books can t hold my attention for long periods of time But last night I was reading Broken Angels on the bus home from work, a 30 minute trip I didn t notice any of I almost missed my stop I held my Kindle up to the streetlights as I walked the rest of the way home When I got in, I didn t turn on music I didn t change clothes or get a snack or anything I just lay down on the c...As I was halfway through I thought I d end up rating this a 4 star or a 4.5 star but then as I was finishing up I couldn t put this book down My initial hesitation was based on a personal wanting to seeemotion from the characters but at the conclusion I got it the only way all 3 of the main characters could endure what they had to do and survive the horrors of WWII was to distant themselves emotionally And Ms Liviero did this wonderfully, showing, I believe, how these people might have As I was halfway through I thought I d end up rating this a 4 star or a 4.5 star but then as I was finishing up I couldn t put this book down My initial hesitation was based on a personal wanting to seeemotion from the characters but at the conclusion I got it the only way all 3 of the main characters could endure what they had to do and survive the horrors of WWII was to distant themselves emotionally And Ms Liviero did this wonderfully, showing, I believe, how these people might...This absolutely riveting, character driven novel presents us with three views of Nazi Europe that are simply breathtaking This is not your usual Holocaust novel which focuses on the prisoners in the death camps I was near tears several times as I read of Elsi s fight for survival in the Lodz ghetto in Poland, of the doctor who performs experiments in Auschwi...

Broken Angels
  • 07 December 2017
  • Paperback
  • 464 pages
  • 1503934861
  • Gemma Liviero
  • Broken Angels