Orphan, Monster, Spy --- I almost killed my Kindle.
- readstoomuch3
- Feb 17, 2018
- 1 min read

I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. From the publisher --- Her name is Sarah. She's blonde, blue-eyed, and Jewish in 1939 Germany. And her act of resistance is about to change the world. After her mother is shot at a checkpoint, fifteen-year-old Sarah meets a mysterious man with an ambiguous accent, a suspiciously bare apartment, and a lockbox full of weapons. He's part of the secret resistance against the Third Reich, and he needs Sarah to hide in plain sight at a school for the daughters of top Nazi brass, posing as one of them. If she can befriend the daughter of a key scientist and get invited to her house, she might be able to steal the blueprints to a bomb that could destroy the cities of Western Europe. Nothing could prepare Sarah for her cutthroat schoolmates, and soon she finds herself in a battle for survival unlike any she'd ever imagined. But anyone who underestimates this innocent-seeming girl does so at their peril. She may look sweet, but she's the Nazis' worst nightmare.
This book got me so excited - what a great premise - but I absolutely HATED the ending and it ruined the entire book for me. (I won't share it as it is too much of a spoiler!) Solid and engrossing writing until the end when I wanted to toss my Kindle against the wall in anger...I have not been this ticked since the end of "Gone, Baby, Gone" ..so my ticked-off-ed-ness was epic. Worth a read, for sure, as you may not agree with me :-)