A review by rubybereading
Shaken Not Stirred by Alma Katsu

1.5

As the final installment in a short-story trilogy, it just suddenly turned into a whole other story. A bunch of action and shoot 'em up bang bang scenes all out the blue, when the first 2 were pretty tame and dry—little to no action at all. Smh! This whole thing was weird. Mainly because the story didn't need to be a trilogy. It could've been a novella. It still would have been disjointed, but still. Idk. It was weak. As far as the plot and sequence of events, this made the CIA look incompetent and extremely gullible and stupid. And it made Russian spies look emotionally and mentally fragile. Also, it read very preachy and propagandistic. It was all over the place. It did serve a very specific purpose for me personally as a reader, but it won’t likely have any kind of impact in the long run—other than probably turning me off from ever trying another spy story. Damn.