The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
I grabbed this book during my last in-person visit to the library where I was panic grabbing books to stock up prior to the closure. I’ve been a big fan of Reese’s book club and dove back to the beginning: this was the second of her picks (I had already read and enjoyed her first pick, “Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine.” This book was interesting but took a lot for me to get through, which I think was a combo of it’s hard to focus […]
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
Bingo Square: History Schmistory Kate Quinn’s follow up to The Alice Network once again follows multiple timelines and perspectives, though the timelines are much closer together this time around and involve three people. After a short prologue which includes the only part from the perspective of the titular huntress and a newspaper article introducing the war crimes the huntress committed during World War II, the novel alternates between the character views of Jordan, a teenage girl living in 1946 Boston. Her widowed father, an antiquarian, […]
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
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 […]
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
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 […]
The Alice Network by Kate Quinn
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 […]
The Huntress by Kate Quinn
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. […]
