redbecca 's review for:

Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews

1.0

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The "main" character is a woman, but the real protagonist is the American dude, and the women characters are pretty much male fantasies. There is a lot of gratuituous sexual violence in this book. I read it because I thought it might be an interesting document of contemporary US attitudes about Putin's Russia, and to some extent it's good for that. However, the best thing about it is the recipes, but these don't bear any meaningful connection to the story until the second half of the book when one "foodie" character shows up.