Everything Cassie believes about her father is turned on its head when she meets an estranged elderly aunt more than willing to expose family secrets that have created riffs across generations. From an ancient city in the Ottoman Empire to Paris in the Roaring Twenties to a desperate escape from Nazi annihilation, Cassie begins to unearth her family’s past and its impact on who she has become.
The Curator of Broken Things: From Smyrna to Paris is an incredible and poignant book that is unlike anything I have read before. The Curator of Broken Things was a captivating and heart-wrenching read and an incredibly memorable one that I will struggle to forget for a long time thanks to the compelling story and extraordinary characters the reader meets along the way. That is why I of course already recommend this book to you lovely readers! However, if you need more convincing then continue to read to learn more!
The Curator of Broken Things: From Smyrna to Paris is a moving, shocking, and captivating read that will take its readers on a journey across times and will move its readers from start to finish. The reader in The Curator of Broken Things: From Smyrna to Paris will meet the protagonist of the novel Cassie. Cassie is a woman whose life is turned upside down when she learns some shocking family secrets, exposed by her aunt. This forces Cassie to go back in time and unravel the secrets of her family’s past which will take her on a transformative and enlightening journey and this book lovers is the short premise of the incredible The Curator of Broken Things: From Smyrna to Paris!
The story of The Curator of Broken Things is quite simply sensational as well as poignant and is a book that deals with many poignant themes as well as uplifting themes and all of these topics are weaved perfectly together, and the outcome is a beautiful piece of literature that will stay prominent in readers minds for many weeks upon completion! To write I am astounded by The Curator of Broken Things is an understatement, this captivating book captured me and held me, prisoner, until the very end; which is what any reader would want in a book!
Most novels of this nature are, in my opinion, lackluster and predictable sometimes and so my faith in this genre has dwindled over the years. The Curator of Broken Things, however, has restored my faith in this genre as this one is incredible! The story, combined with Corine Gantz’s flawless writing which feels as if it is spiked with adrenaline make The Curator of Broken Things a stellar read and one that should not be missed!
Corine Gantz’s prose engrossed me very quickly thanks to the poignant themes she explores as well as the gripping narrative of the protagonist Cassie but what also gripped me was her sensitivity to subjects explored. The sensitivity and passion in Gantz’s words were admirable and kept me turning the pages quickly as I desperately wanted to read more of her exceptional prose.
As I am madly in love with The Curator of Broken Things and think it is a captivating and poignant novel with a moving and memorable plot, I have no choice but to award it a dazzling five stars because it deserves this! The Curator of Broken Things indeed is a captivating book, and so I hope you lovely readers take my advice when I write that you should read this excellent book, you will not regret it!
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