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boreal_girl 's review for:
Red Sparrow
by Jason Matthews
Come for the torture, stay for the tortellini.
A genre I hadn’t read in a long time, I picked this book based on some buzz. The audiobook is well performed. The story did pull me along at a good pace for the most part, although at times it did mire down in unnecessary details and plot tangents. This felt like classic espionage with no surprises, and a pretty predictable outcome. It was a little jarring to listen to an explicit torture description, then to bump to the end-of-chapter recipe. A bit of tension relief, I found myself more interested in anticipating which food would be highlighted, rather than the actual plot. Perhaps this genre just isn’t my cuppa.
A genre I hadn’t read in a long time, I picked this book based on some buzz. The audiobook is well performed. The story did pull me along at a good pace for the most part, although at times it did mire down in unnecessary details and plot tangents. This felt like classic espionage with no surprises, and a pretty predictable outcome. It was a little jarring to listen to an explicit torture description, then to bump to the end-of-chapter recipe. A bit of tension relief, I found myself more interested in anticipating which food would be highlighted, rather than the actual plot. Perhaps this genre just isn’t my cuppa.