All the Broken Angels had me wrapped up in reliving my own history. I was laughing, crying, angry and uplifted at all that happenings during this book reading. I have recommended it already to many eople that I know will enjoy revisiting a tumultuous time in recent history. So many emotions and jolting things were happening and we lost much of our innocence during that upheaval in our history. This book was so well done that I gave it a 5 star rating and I don't do that often. Well done!

Loved this book! If you are a “boomer,” so many memories will coming flooding back!
We always remember those years as “simpler” times but as we walk back through them, they did present their own special challenges.. You will be thinking. “Wow I forgot about that, I was there,, that happened to me also,,and I cried as I sat glued to the tv screen, waiting and praying!” If you are not a “boomer, “ read it and learn what it was truly like to grow up during those times.

Sometimes the best books are the hardest ones to write reviews for, especially when they give you major book hangover…
Anyone who grew up in the 70’s, playing with Barbies and G.I. Joes, eating penny candy, listening to Billy Joel on the radio, etc., will be taken down Memory Lane with this novel.
Anyone who had loved ones fighting in Vietnam in the 60’s and 70’s, or grew up hearing stories passed down about that time, will also be transported back…
Through the eyes and voice of Cate, sometimes in flashbacks from childhood, sometimes in the decade she’s currently experiencing as an adult, the reader gets a trip through history. The authors do a wonderful job of showing how faith and family can keep people as individuals, and as a nation, moving forward through even the most tumultuous times.
I was born in 1969, so most of what I know about the Vietnam War era is from memories passed down from family, and from reading books about it on my own (my high school and college history classes never went further than WW2.) I was deeply touched, then, when I read passages in this book about families turning to the evening news to find out if their son’s numbers would come up in the draft lottery, something I previously knew little about.
Other things I read made me giggle (the innocent questions of a little girl about the Catholic faith, and the way her cousin/partner in crime Albie tries to answer them, because the nuns shut her down). And a reader would have to be made of stone not to get misty-eyed during heart-rending passages about knocks on doors and bad news received from the military.
If I keep going, I’m going to be creating “spoilers”! So I say to all history-lovers: grab this book, a box of tissues (and maybe a bag of candy), and settle in for wonderful nostalgia trip!
*Thanks to Netgalley for a digital copy, provided in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are strictly my own.*