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The Diamond Eye
by Kate Quinn
What I love about Kate Quinn is that she makes learning history a lot more exciting than just reading a history book, which I have never enjoyed beyond 5th grade social studies when I was learning about world explorers. Her books don’t have the lighter mood to them that I enjoy from Sarah Sundin, but that’s because Kate Quinn is using a lot of facts and just using fiction to fill in the blanks for a complete story. It makes them a little harder to get into, but once I’m there, I’m hooked.
I’ve read a few reviews that said the reader didn’t like this story as well as The Rose Code. For me, it was the opposite. I loved The Rose Code and all of the code-breaking storyline, but the main character’s life was quite depressing. In The Diamond Eye, Mila was too strong to ever allow you to feel sorry for her. She went through so much, but she never let it stop her. Her story was incredible, even if it was a little slow to start. Finding out that most of it was based on facts and her memoir made it even better for me. Lyudmila Pavlichenko is very inspiring.
In the author segment that follows, Kate Quinn says that most people have never heard of Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The amazing thing is that few people in this time period would ever read her memoir or even have heard of her to know to look for it, but Kate Quinn has brought her story to so many people now. That makes me smile because amazing people like this need to have their stories told to those of us who lived years after her and would never know of them otherwise. It makes me have a greater appreciation for Kate Quinn, knowing (or at least guessing) how much time and research she put into bringing this story to life for us.
While I will read a bunch of lighter stories before I take on the next Kate Quinn novel (I still have The Alice Network and The Huntress on my list for this year), I will be excited to read them when the time comes.
I’ve read a few reviews that said the reader didn’t like this story as well as The Rose Code. For me, it was the opposite. I loved The Rose Code and all of the code-breaking storyline, but the main character’s life was quite depressing. In The Diamond Eye, Mila was too strong to ever allow you to feel sorry for her. She went through so much, but she never let it stop her. Her story was incredible, even if it was a little slow to start. Finding out that most of it was based on facts and her memoir made it even better for me. Lyudmila Pavlichenko is very inspiring.
In the author segment that follows, Kate Quinn says that most people have never heard of Lyudmila Pavlichenko. The amazing thing is that few people in this time period would ever read her memoir or even have heard of her to know to look for it, but Kate Quinn has brought her story to so many people now. That makes me smile because amazing people like this need to have their stories told to those of us who lived years after her and would never know of them otherwise. It makes me have a greater appreciation for Kate Quinn, knowing (or at least guessing) how much time and research she put into bringing this story to life for us.
While I will read a bunch of lighter stories before I take on the next Kate Quinn novel (I still have The Alice Network and The Huntress on my list for this year), I will be excited to read them when the time comes.