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A review by amycanread_
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
3.0
3.75/5
Really interesting WW1/WW2 historical fiction with 2 different POV timelines that weave together as the story progresses. Although both POVs are necessary to the other, one of them was significantly more interesting than the other which made almost half the book feel slow.
1915 Young Eve is newly recruited as a wartime spy for England. She uses the traits that would have otherwise made her weak in society - her speech impediment, innocence, femininity - to gather intelligence in a German-friendly French restaurant. Captivating thrill of the espionage and the eventual fallout.
1947 Charlie is an unwed, newly pregnant American college girl. She’s kind of a hot mess. Her war veteran older brother just shot himself, she’s being brought to Europe by her mother for an abortion, and she runs away desperately looking for her cousin who went missing after WW2. She finds and recruits a much older, much more traumatized Eve to help her search through France. I found myself more interested in seeing how younger Eve reconciled with older Eve than Charlie’s search for Rose.
Really interesting WW1/WW2 historical fiction with 2 different POV timelines that weave together as the story progresses. Although both POVs are necessary to the other, one of them was significantly more interesting than the other which made almost half the book feel slow.
1915 Young Eve is newly recruited as a wartime spy for England. She uses the traits that would have otherwise made her weak in society - her speech impediment, innocence, femininity - to gather intelligence in a German-friendly French restaurant. Captivating thrill of the espionage and the eventual fallout.
1947 Charlie is an unwed, newly pregnant American college girl. She’s kind of a hot mess. Her war veteran older brother just shot himself, she’s being brought to Europe by her mother for an abortion, and she runs away desperately looking for her cousin who went missing after WW2. She finds and recruits a much older, much more traumatized Eve to help her search through France. I found myself more interested in seeing how younger Eve reconciled with older Eve than Charlie’s search for Rose.