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The Huntress by Kate Quinn

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CBR11 Bingo – History/Schmistory   After reading Quinn’s previous novel, The Alice Network, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on her new book. I adore her way of portraying women in historical fiction – finding the badass women who are the heroines of the story, not the background players. One part of this story follows the journey of Nina Markova, as she journeys from the wilds of the Soviet Union to Moscow, in order to join the Night Witches – a legendary group of female pilots, tasked with bombing the Germans under the cover of darkness. She is eventually […]

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7/17/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:31 |

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The Huntress by Kate Quinn

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I read this on the recommendation of Caitlin_D (Cannonballer Says!) after we both thoroughly enjoyed Quinn’s first novel, The Alice Network. If I remember correctly, Caitlin simultaneously got the audio book and the hard copy from the library, started the audio book and told me to read her copy of the hardback so I could get to it sooner. She’s an American hero. The Huntress flips back and forth between two narratives. During WWII, Nina Markova escapes her violent father and a village in Soviet Russia to fly planes and drop bombs on Hitler’s eastern front as a Night Witch. She […]

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7/11/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:83 |

Eve Gardiner is a BAMF

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

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This book was so cool! A network of lady spies during WWI, and then a mission after WWII to find a woman that brings it all full circle. Romance, espionage, intrigue — this book would make one hell of a movie. The story is told from two perspectives. In 1915, Eve Gardiner finds herself recruited into a network of spies, where her young looks and persistent stammer allow her to pass as a nervous waitress in a restaurant full of Nazis. She keeps her eyes and ears open and her mouth shut as she gathers information and sends it back […]

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4/19/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:47 |

The Hunt is On

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

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The author of the well reviewed The Alice Network is back with another big historical fiction.  The Huntress is a Nazi woman who most famous crime is shooting a group of children after feeding them a meal.  She has slipped though the many cracks around after WWII and disappeared.  The story is set during the war and a few years after in Boston. An odd trio of Nazi hunters are after The Huntress, hoping to find her in Boston.  Tony is a disillusioned American ex-GI.  Ian is a revenge seeking Brit whose brother was a victim  of The Huntress.  Finally, […]

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4/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:8 |

“She used to be the hunter, and now she was the prey.”

The Huntress by Kate Quinn

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I thoroughly enjoyed The Alice Network and was very excited to hear Kate Quinn was releasing a new novel, The Huntress, this year. Quinn focuses again on WWII and its aftermath using various points of view resulting in a complex, layered narrative. Nina’s story is primarily set during the years Russian was engaged in battle with World War II. After growing up by the Old Man, an affectionate name from the Siberian lake outside her home, with an abusive father who openly denounces Stalin, Nina Markova runs away from home to become a pilot. While initially rejected for war she eventually becomes a […]

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3/31/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:28 |

What Happens After the War?

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

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I listened to this one on Audible – figured it’s the kind of story I’m usually interested in but also am more hesitant to pick up nowadays because the genre does sometimes blend together so it seemed like the perfect selection for, “damn, how did I end up with so many Audible credits, I have no idea what I want!” The novel begins in 1947 with nineteen-year-old Charlie on her way to Switzerland for a procedure to take care of “her little problem.” The last few years have been a bit hard on her family – her mother is originally […]

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7/31/2018 's CBR10 Review No:140 |

“Welcome to real spy work. Mostly tedious, occasionally exhilarating.”

The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

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I have been waiting to read The Alice Network for what feels like forever. I nearly bought it despite having an ever growing TBR pile on my bookshelves that I promised myself (well, really my husband) I’d pare down before buying anything new. Either way I’m glad I held out because I actually got my hands on the audio version through the library and it was a great listen. Kate Quinn weaves real history, namely Louise de Bettignies and her network of female spies, with fiction into a superb novel full of strong female characters. The Alice Network begins a few years after World […]

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6/22/2018 's CBR10 Review No:74 |

Women & Espionage in the World Wars

The Alice Network: A Novel by Kate Quinn

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The Alice Network by Kate Quinn is an ambitious work of historical fiction that straddles two world wars and their aftermath, and that shines a light on the heroic work of female spies. Quinn uses a solid base of historical fact and real people to create her fictional heroine Eve (aka Evelyn Gardiner, aka Marguerite Le Francois), a spy for England in WWI who made shattering sacrifices and has never healed from her tragic and brutal experiences. Eve is an alcoholic recluse when, in the spring of 1947, an assertive and unrelenting American girl named Charlie (Charlotte), who is single […]

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4/12/2018 's CBR10 Review No:15 |


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