sblanch12 's review for:

American Spy by Lauren Wilkinson

3.0

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This book could have been so much more. My favorite part was the main character's description of her first few days in Burkina Faso and how she described some incidents of culture shock. The rest was very unbelievable, and if it were more of a thriller spy novel, I'd be okay with an anti-hero doing unbelievably spectacular feats of changing geopolitics through sheer cunning (or force if it was a male character of course) but this wasn't quite a spy thriller and wasn't quite historical fiction and just overall wasn't quite good enough.