Enjoy this week's adult patron book reviews submitted through the WooReads Adult Challenge: Turn a New Page. There's still time to sign up, so click here to join. What's in it for me, you ask? Log 20 books or 3 activities and you'll be entered into a drawing for a Kindle Paperwhite! It doesn't get any better than getting rewarded for reading!
The Rook is a very fun thriller set in an England. Myfanwy (pronounced miffany) wakes up in field surrounded by dead people-people that she has apparently just killed in self defense. But she doesn't remember anything - no name, no history, no idea of what just happened. Fortunately there is a letter in her pocket that tells her all the basics and it was written by previous self to her new self. She is a Rook: a high ranking official in Britain's supernatural secret service. And there is a traitor who is trying to kill her. Very funny with lots of adventures and quirky characters. ~ Mary R.
This book follows a German woman, Ursula Kuczynski, who joins a young people's communist group in Germany pre-WWII to fight fascism. The author tells the story of her eventual training by the Soviets to become a spy. She travels to numerous countries to set up networks, gather information and send it back to Russia, all the while seeming to live a normal life with a husband and children. While those around her fell victim to Stalin's violent purge of agents, she remained shielded and operative. This is a very worthwhile, interesting book which follows her legacy right up to January 2020! ~ Linda J.
The Return by Rachel Harrison
If you like thrillers, this is the book to try. Four best friends reunite after one has been missing for 2 years. She can’t remember what happened. I couldn’t read it fast enough! Her first book, hope she writes lots more! ~ Karen S.
I Iove reading about women who have endured so much suffering and hardship in their life to the beat the odds and triumph! ~ Jane O.
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