A review by elemmire
All Other Nights by Dara Horn

2.0

Never before have more unlikely coincidences taken place in one book. The string of events flow like a river of molasses, which I suppose is fitting with the southern location of most of it. By this I mean that there is one central plot, which is fine, but each sub plot that tries to go off into a slightly different direction is immediately sucked back into the black hole of the main plot. I really came to the conclusion that Jacob wasn't picked as a spy just because he was Jewish, but also because he was entirely expendable. He may be brilliant with number, but nothing else. You get the sense that he should be wearing thick glasses and spending all of his time in the library, yet not gaining as much knowledge as would be assumed. A story about an ordinary man doing what he is told, in an extremely understated way.

I'm also sure that there are words other than beautiful and stunning to describe an attractive woman.