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The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn
Mila Pavlichenko is a history student and a mother with an absent and onerous husband, as well as an extremely talented riflewoman. When Hitler invades Russia, she is called to serve and quickly earns notoriety as a deadly sniper--dubbed Lady Death. At the front she is a woman amongst men, a mother away from her son, a reluctant wife striving to escape her husbands shadow, leaning on her loyal partner and her lover for support. Together they endure success and tragedy when an injury takes her away from the front. Despite her desire to continue to fight, Russia sends her to the US as a propaganda piece to convince the USA to join the war. As she fosters a unexpected friendship with the First Lady of the United States and endures a long, mindless tour of the country, she soon realizes she has entered a new battleground and she must fight harder than ever to return to those she loves.
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A highly fictionalized representation of a true war hero, which unfortunately took away from the value of the story. Mila alone is impressive, a woman achieving so much all on her own. I loved the parts that focused on her experiences during the war, her pursuit of humanity amongst the devastation, finding love in unexpected places, becoming a pawn of Russian propaganda despite the desire to speak her mind. This part was believable and heartrending. I was disappointed when it was suddenly over. I felt like her relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt was underemphasized and did not feel relevant to the story. The climax was over-fictionalized, bordering on ridiculous, and thus I lost interest.
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While this one wasn't a complete hit with me, I would happily pick up another of Kate Quinn's.
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A highly fictionalized representation of a true war hero, which unfortunately took away from the value of the story. Mila alone is impressive, a woman achieving so much all on her own. I loved the parts that focused on her experiences during the war, her pursuit of humanity amongst the devastation, finding love in unexpected places, becoming a pawn of Russian propaganda despite the desire to speak her mind. This part was believable and heartrending. I was disappointed when it was suddenly over. I felt like her relationship with Eleanor Roosevelt was underemphasized and did not feel relevant to the story. The climax was over-fictionalized, bordering on ridiculous, and thus I lost interest.
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While this one wasn't a complete hit with me, I would happily pick up another of Kate Quinn's.