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jcm 's review for:
Red Sparrow
by Jason Matthews
Matthews has a teenage boys understanding of women. Dominka is a one dimensional character, drop-dead gorgeous, has an ostensible super-power of synthesia, and is perfect at everything she does.
It repeatedly drilled into the reader that women just don’t belong in the SVR unless they are secretaries, so of course to have a female SVR officer she has to be the best of all women. Give me a break.
The other women are stereotypes of every misogynistic sort.
The “romance” between Dominika and Nate was unbelievable. I just couldn’t believe in the couple because Matthews went from fantastic operational writing to stumbling through an adolescent’s understanding of emotions and intimacy.
Really wanted to like this book, but just didn’t care about the characters, except for MARBLE.
It repeatedly drilled into the reader that women just don’t belong in the SVR unless they are secretaries, so of course to have a female SVR officer she has to be the best of all women. Give me a break.
The other women are stereotypes of every misogynistic sort.
The “romance” between Dominika and Nate was unbelievable. I just couldn’t believe in the couple because Matthews went from fantastic operational writing to stumbling through an adolescent’s understanding of emotions and intimacy.
Really wanted to like this book, but just didn’t care about the characters, except for MARBLE.