happilyeveramy's review
4.0
A buge thank you to @zooloosbooktours @spellboundbks and @beccamascull for my #gifted ebook for this tour.
1940
London
A man learns a shocking truth about his past.
Warsaw
A mother writes a diary as the ghetto walls go up.
From the bombed streets of London, to occupied Warsaw, to the Polish forests bristling with partisans, will their paths cross? Will their pasts be reconciled? And will they survive the deadly assaults on their freedom and their lives?
We follow Daniel and Helena, telling us their stories of times in 1940.
So much goes on this book, which I don't want to spoil for you. So I won't say a lot in this review apart from what I can.
Our two protagonists are wonderful and so emotional. There journey just shows throughout each chapter and it's heartbreaking and emotional, then full of hope and laughter. These two characters have a hell of a lot of courage and I applaud them for never giving up.
Mascull has certainly done a lot of research into this book and you can see that in every page you read. It takes a lot to write a book around history and world war when you didn't experience it, and to me it felt like Mascall had.
This is a very good book and it takes me a while to get into historical fiction, but The Seamstress of Warsaw was just fantastic and I devoured it in a few days.
Be prepared to have many emotions in this story as it follows endurance and loss, family and blood, stories and histories, that questions the nature of who we are and where we are going.
Mascull is a wonderful writer and I definitely suggest this book gets bumped into your tbr!
1940
London
A man learns a shocking truth about his past.
Warsaw
A mother writes a diary as the ghetto walls go up.
From the bombed streets of London, to occupied Warsaw, to the Polish forests bristling with partisans, will their paths cross? Will their pasts be reconciled? And will they survive the deadly assaults on their freedom and their lives?
We follow Daniel and Helena, telling us their stories of times in 1940.
So much goes on this book, which I don't want to spoil for you. So I won't say a lot in this review apart from what I can.
Our two protagonists are wonderful and so emotional. There journey just shows throughout each chapter and it's heartbreaking and emotional, then full of hope and laughter. These two characters have a hell of a lot of courage and I applaud them for never giving up.
Mascull has certainly done a lot of research into this book and you can see that in every page you read. It takes a lot to write a book around history and world war when you didn't experience it, and to me it felt like Mascall had.
This is a very good book and it takes me a while to get into historical fiction, but The Seamstress of Warsaw was just fantastic and I devoured it in a few days.
Be prepared to have many emotions in this story as it follows endurance and loss, family and blood, stories and histories, that questions the nature of who we are and where we are going.
Mascull is a wonderful writer and I definitely suggest this book gets bumped into your tbr!
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