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A review by mackenzierm
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
4.0
In 1947, following the aftermath of WWII, Charlie St. Clair, an American college girl, is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her family. She’s also hoping that her cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France, might still be alive. Charlie’s parents banish her to France to take care of her ‘little problem’, which she sees as the perfect opportunity to break free and find out what happened to her cousin. In 1915, Eve wants to join the fight against the Germans and is unexpectedly recruited as a spy and sent to enemy-occupied France where she is trained by Lili, code name Alice, the ‘queen of spies’. Thirty years have passed since Eve’s spy days and she spends most of her time drunk and secluded in her London home until a young American barges in and launches them both on a mission to find the truth.
THE ALICE NETWORK is a highly intriguing story set during WWI about women in espionage. It also features a timeline in 1947, following WWII, where an American woman is searching for a lost cousin.
Eve’s POV was my favorite in this novel – I loved seeing the world of women spies via her lens and the danger that came with it. There’s a lot of tension and anticipation as the story unfolds to reveal what happens to the Alice Network. Charlie’s POV was lacking for me and I truly didn’t love it. Her narrative is set in 1947 where she is searching for what happened to her cousin during WWII. I found her POV to be slow and disruptive to the pacing of the novel as a whole. I did enjoy where Charlie and Eve’s stories overlap, but if I was offered the choice of which POV to stay in – it would be Eve’s.
The audiobook narration is well done and brings the story to life with the many accents used.
THE ALICE NETWORK is a highly intriguing story set during WWI about women in espionage. It also features a timeline in 1947, following WWII, where an American woman is searching for a lost cousin.
Eve’s POV was my favorite in this novel – I loved seeing the world of women spies via her lens and the danger that came with it. There’s a lot of tension and anticipation as the story unfolds to reveal what happens to the Alice Network. Charlie’s POV was lacking for me and I truly didn’t love it. Her narrative is set in 1947 where she is searching for what happened to her cousin during WWII. I found her POV to be slow and disruptive to the pacing of the novel as a whole. I did enjoy where Charlie and Eve’s stories overlap, but if I was offered the choice of which POV to stay in – it would be Eve’s.
The audiobook narration is well done and brings the story to life with the many accents used.