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March 29, 2023

REVIEW: Hotel of Secrets by Diana Biller

KaetrinB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsHistorical / NetGalley / spies / Vienna4 Comments

Content notes:  Domestic violence Dear Diana Biller, Set in Vienna in 1877, Hotel of Secrets is something of a departure from your previous two novels. For one thing, there are no ghosts or supernatural elements in this book (unless one counts a family legend about “the man“). Maria Wallner is ... more >

December 5, 2022

JOINT REVIEW: Moira’s Pen by Megan Whalen Turner

JanineB Reviews / Book Reviewsambassador / disability / earrings / gods / joint review / king / Mediterranean setting / myth / princess / queen / spies / thief / YA fantasy3 Comments

Janine: Megan Whalen Turner completed her Queen’s Thief series two years ago, and the essays, stories and vignettes in Moira’s Pen, a new collection of set in the same world and featuring some of the same characters, are a bit like the big crumbs and smears of ganache left on ... more >

June 6, 2019

REVIEW: Scholars of Mayhem by Daniel C. Guiet and Timothy K. Smith

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAgent/Spies/Undercover / Biography / espionage / France / non-fiction / spies / World War II3 Comments

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The astonishing untold story of the author’s father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German lines in France, whose epic feats of irregular warfare proved vital in keeping Nazi tanks away from Normandy after D-Day. When Daniel Guiet was a child and his family moved ... more >

March 5, 2019

REVIEW: Madame Fourcade’s Secret War by Lynne Olson

JayneB Reviews / Book ReviewsAgent/Spies/Undercover / France / Historical / non-fiction / secret agent / spies / World War II6 Comments

The little-known true story of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the woman who headed the largest spy network in occupied France during World War II, from the bestselling author of Citizens of London and Last Hope Island In 1941 a thirty-one-year-old Frenchwoman, a young mother born to privilege and known for her beauty ... more >

August 23, 2017

REVIEW: His Quiet Agent by Ada Maria Soto

SiriusB Reviews / B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsasexual character / m/m romance / secrete agents / spies9 Comments

Dear Ada Maria Sotto: Several book buddies at the Amazon m/m group where I hang out a lot recommended your book. I had never heard of your name before, but the book was on Kindle Unlimited and I do have the subscription so it seemed like a safe bet. The ... more >

August 1, 2017

REVIEW: Beauty Like the Night by Joanna Bourne

KaetrinA- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsEnglish Historical / Historical / London / Regency / spies7 Comments

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Dear Joanna Bourne, I’m not much a of a wine drinker. But I understand that fine wine is best savoured slowly and often improves with age. Your books are like that. I like to linger over your words and drink them in, letting them sit for a while to sink ... more >

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