If Only This Book Had Been Written By Another Kate--Atkinson, Or Even McKinnon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                           Now, girls, I am telling you, if Kate McKinnon had written "The Alice Network," this book would have been something else.  I am not saying a woman could not write this story--but how I wish Frederick Forstyth or Fletcher Knebel or Charles W. Bailey, Jr. had gotten their hands on this--but the trouble with Kate Quinn is she has no prose style, and her structure is repetitive and predictable.

                                            The narrative is driving, and that is what kept me going.  "The Alice Network" examines, from both a recent present, and the past, an underground women's spy group working against the Nazis, in both England and France.  Two of these characters, Eve, and Charlie, and a car driver named Finn become the storytellers through this journey of intrigue, and torture and violence.
The latter is as grueling as it comes, and Kate Quinn pulls no punches.  The ending is extremely satisfying, but the pace and structure wear the reader down, making one wish the book was shorter than it actually is.  To make matters worse, there is an excerpt from her latest novel, "The Huntress," and, I swear, it reads just as badly as this.

                                               Somewhere in here is a great story.  Kate Quinn did not have the skill to write it.  One step above chick lit, and taking itself far too seriously, without the inherent fun of the chick lit genre, I honestly cannot recommend this book to anyone.

                                                Reese, honey, that you have a book club is something I have not the time to go into here.  But, I have read several selections, and I have to credit you with picking good ones.  But you struck out with this one, darling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                  I'd love to hear what Kate McKinnon would say about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!