Rating: 5 out of 5

This was my second Kate Quinn novel, and I enjoyed it just as much as the first. I don’t always love dual timeline stories, as I sometimes find the mechanism a bit artificial, but this one worked well. It moves between World War I and 1947.

It It also has an educational element, giving a fictionalised look at real historical events and people. (This is why I especially enjoyed reading the Author’s Note at the end; it really showed how the history was woven into the story, laying out the truth and identifying which characters were real versus imagined.)

The wartime thread follows a female spy in the Alice Network, and the 1947 thread follows a young woman trying to find out what happened to her cousin during the war. I was completely invested in both stories.

While some of the characters I spent time with weren’t people I’d necessarily want to meet, they were still fascinating.

Originally posted to my Goodreads account