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    Broken Angels
    Broken Angels
    Broken Angels
    Audiobook13 hours

    Broken Angels

    Written by Gemma Liviero

    Narrated by Nico Evers-Swindell and Emily Foster

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781511374460
    Broken Angels
    Author

    Gemma Liviero

    Gemma Liviero is the author of the historical novels The Road Beyond Ruin, Broken Angels, and Pastel Orphans, which was a finalist in the 2015 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In addition to novel writing, her professional career includes copywriting, corporate writing, writing feature articles and editorials, and editing. She holds an advanced diploma of arts (writing) and has continued her studies in arts and other humanities. Gemma lives with her family in Queensland, Australia. For more information, visit www.gemmaliviero.com.

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    • 5/5
      Another great book from a very talented author, a must
    • 5/5
      Very interesting story, it is very detailed of WWII and the camps, the cruelty, the love, the unfairness of it all. I hated for the story to end.

      All the narrators were wonderful!
    • 2/5
      A bit slow and was hard to get in to
    • 5/5
      The time is world war 2. Two Jewish lives are saved by a caring Nazi officer.
    • 5/5
      Great book! Tears, sorrows, reflections and more is what this book does to readers. Thank you. A must read indeed.
    • 3/5
      Story wasn't bad but not overly compelling. Had a lot of difficulty with the narration. Too even tempo'd and annunciation far too distinct to feel comfortable. Uncomfortable speech pattern, etc. Not enough to turn away from this writer but it would have to be an author I love to try to get thru these narrators again. Unfortunately, the writing takes a serious hit as a result.
    • 5/5
      Everything about this book was wonderful. A great listen. Captivating!
    • 4/5
      Three main characters mesh together a story of war: Elsie, a Jewish girl fighting with the resistance; Matilda, a Eimanian youth forced from her home to be a part of the “pure” German race; and Willem, a high-ranking German doctor determined to help as most as he can. When Hitler ransacks Europe in pursuit of a pure German race, these three lives will be thrown together in unexpected ways.
    • 3/5
      This book started very well and I enjoyed how the narrative was shared between Elsi, Willem and Matilda. They were all intelligent, generous people who came from vastly different backgrounds, but fate and the horrors of the Nazi regime brought them, unexpectedly, together. Whilst I found Elsi and Matilda's stories interesting, it was Willem's that really captured my attention. He was a complex character and even though, as a high ranking Nazi doctor, he took part in the medical sterilisations at Auschwitz, he was basically a kind man with a conscience, and tried to atone for his mistakes.I was enjoying "Broken Angels" until about three-quarters of the way through when the characters who I had regarded as broken angels became avengers, seeing their own justice. It wasn't believable and spoilt the book. The ending was rushed and too tidy. However, I did like Matilda's final letter. Overall, a good, but not great, novel set against the backdrop of World War II.
    • 5/5
      Wow! What a book. The story is told from the point of view of three different people. Their stories do come together and then unwind again. Some difficult to read parts, as is often the case with books that focus on Germany/Poland during WWII.
    • 5/5
      Elsi, Matilda and William’s stories merge, as they all live through World War II. Elsi, imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, struggles to survive along with her mother and sister. Matilda, a young girl, is taken from Romania to Germany, where she is sent to a “rehabilitation camp” where they attempt to turn her into the perfect German. Willem, a Nazi doctor, and son of a high ranking Nazi, lives first in the ghetto and then works at the rehabilitation camp.This book was fascinating and hard to put down. The characters really came alive. I loved how their stories merged and were ultimately woven together. I would love to read more by this author. Overall, highly recommended.
    • 5/5
      I 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 mother to him in need of medical help. Willem was in no means an angel, but he treated his patients different than the rest of the doctors. He is able to save Elsi when he sees that she is being put on the truck of the dead. Matilda was signed away by her mother so she could go to a training center for Aryan children to become more German. When she gets there, she isn't getting any lessons but instead is teaching younger children German and they must memorize passages from Mein Kampf. Matilda's life becomes interwoven with Willem and Elsi's, when Willem becomes in charge of the training center that Matilda lives at. This was a beautifully written novel and captured the different aspects of the war. I really liked how the book changed narrators from chapter to chapter.