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A review by kellyhager
Suspect Red by L.M. Elliott
Richard is growing up in 1953, during the height of the McCarthy witch hunts. Some of it annoys him (he wants to read whatever he wants) but mostly he buys into all of it. It's partly because his father works for the FBI and Richard sees himself as (a) super smart, (b) very intuitive and (c) sure to be able to find and bring down any communists in his life. And then he meets Vladimir and his family. (They're Czech, not Russian.) His dad has a government job and his mom is an artist with radical ideas. Richard loves Vlad and his family but...well, he's pretty sure they're total commies.
I really enjoyed this novel. It's always a little hard to imagine how people could get blacklisted for attending a meeting or voting once, but it also keeps happening (see claims of people being unpatriotic for questioning the government after 9/11).
I didn't really like Richard. He's smarmy and he doesn't really think about how actions (and accusations) have consequences. It's almost like he pictured himself as the hero in one of his books, and never paused to wonder what could happen to his friend and Vlad's family.
I do love his little sister, Ginny. She's smart and feisty and can we get a book from her perspective?
I really enjoyed this novel. It's always a little hard to imagine how people could get blacklisted for attending a meeting or voting once, but it also keeps happening (see claims of people being unpatriotic for questioning the government after 9/11).
I didn't really like Richard. He's smarmy and he doesn't really think about how actions (and accusations) have consequences. It's almost like he pictured himself as the hero in one of his books, and never paused to wonder what could happen to his friend and Vlad's family.
I do love his little sister, Ginny. She's smart and feisty and can we get a book from her perspective?