The Alice Network by Kate QuinnMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Saskia Maarleveld's narration and performance was flawless, mesmerizing and I just did not want this story to end!!! Eve, Finn and Charlie were totally believable characters; both Eve and Charlie are thorny (Eve is a spy and Charlie in search of her cousin after WWII) but you rooted for both of them as the story progressed. Bouncing back and forth between Eve POV (1915 WWI) and Charlie POV (1947) the reader is immersed in Eve and her training as a spy. Possessing a stutter, Eve poses as a demure, unworldly Marguerite who waits tables in a restaurant that caters to the Germans during WWI and owned by a reprehensible collaborator. Fast forward to Charlie (1947) who is pregnant and in Europe with her mother to get an abortion but really looking for her cousin, Rose. I enjoyed Charlie as she grew in this novel from a girl desperate to find her cousin while still mourning the suicide of her soldier brother. Both Charlie and Eve face all kinds of discrimination but do not allow anything to stop them from their end goals. Loved everything about this book; the war, the romance, the spying; highly recommended! I am missing Eve, Charlie and Finn already!
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