Oops! I definitely did not mean to go so long between posts! It’s been almost a month! Time sure does fly when you’re…staying busy?? The last month has been pretty crazy but let us get to the nitty gritty, eh?
My book club finished this one and OMG was it one of the best books I’ve read all year! There were, of course, some problems (looking at you, Charlie St. Clair) but for the most part, it was a very engaging read.
The backdrop of both the Great War and the aftermath of WWII make for suspense, high energy and yet somber thought and slow pacing, as we read the story from two ladies lives. We have Eve, a spy in the Alice Network during the Great War. Her story was, by far, the most incredible, edge of your seat action packed adventure, that really made you want to know how she became the embittered old woman that Charlie meets. Then you have Charlie, this American semi-socialite who is being sent overseas because of a Problem (yes, it’s capitalized) that has to be taken care of. Her story, to me, while not very engaging, did sort of have its very own take off and climax with resolution. It just happened to late in the book for me. So I never really was engaged with her or her story at all.
For me, Eve was the real hero. This was, after all, a story based on REAL women, the REAL Alice Network. Those women had balls. They did what had to be done so that the war could be won. They deserve to be honored everyday, I think.
For more of my thoughts on this amazing novel, check out my Goodreads review here.
Now, this is going to be a long blog post if I don’t end it now, but I have been reading a ton more lately and just finished both the series (or where the series has ended so far) Saga, as well as the remainder of the Themis Files triology, Waking Gods and Only Human. All of these have kept me on my toes and deep in the sci-fi and fantasy world, where I needed to go to escape the realness of The Alice Network.
Keep up with me here and on Goodreads and until next time!
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