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The Continent: The Continent Book 1

Keira Drake

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"Have we really come so far, when a tour of the Continent is so desirable a thing? We've traded our...

science fiction fantasy young adult

Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall

Spike Milligan

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Adolf Hitler: My Part on His Downfall is volume One of Spike Milligan's outrageous, hilarious,...

When we Were Young and Brave

Hazel Gaynor

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Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . . The New York Times...

historical literary women fiction

So Much Life Left Over

Louis de Bernieres

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A POWERFULLY EVOCATIVE AND EMOTIONALLY CHARGED NOVEL FROM THE ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF CORELLI'S MANDOLIN...

Historical Fiction First World War Family Saga

Janine O (2 KP) rated Fortune's Pawn in Books

Oct 18, 2017

Fortune's Pawn

Rachel Bach | 2017 | Science Fiction/Fantasy

9.0

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Science Fiction meets complicated Romance

I am both a romance fanatic and a science fiction buff and one day I was just poking around looking for something that would blend these two things without being...you know...bad. I've read a lot of things about some lady in an experimental ship who accidentally ends up on a planet where a hot alien alpha dude wants to make her his interplanetary bride.

I did not want that. I wanted a complex story with romantic themes set in space...and that's exactly what this book gave me.

Fortune's Pawn rocked. Devi Morris is a badass, power armor clad mercenary with a dream to join an elite merc unit...but she has to get some expedition references first. So what does she do? Chooses the one ship with the worst track record in the hopes it with fast track her ambitions to the top. While I wont put spoilers I will say she gets her wish...kinda. She finds romance...that gets VERY complicated, mystery, and tossed into what is bound to end in an interstellar war.

9/10, highly recommend.

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May 4, 2019

The Huntress

Kate Quinn | 2019 | Fiction & Poetry

9.0

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To start out with, I wish I could give this a perfect 10, but one of the main characters, Nina, was completely insufferable and easily, her chapters could have been cut out.
Alright, so, I don't consider books post WWI to be historical fiction, and I normally steer clear of WWII/aftermath fiction because bookstores and goodreads are inundated with hundreds of novels. But, I decided to pick up this book anyway.

Essentially, it's a Nazi hunt. There are three viewpoints from three different characters. As I mentioned, Nina was insufferable. Most of the reviews I read talked about their love of this character and the origin of the Night Witches (AKA female, Russian pilots). Ian was one of the other main characters, a former war correspondent who's a Nazi hunter, trying to find 'The Huntress', who murdered his brother. Then, there's Jordan, an American teenager whose father marries a mysterious German woman with a daughter.

I won't spoil the plot, but basically, you can work out the entire plot within the first few chapters. What kept me reading was the writing style, and every other character but Nina.