Story fab but narrator is shocking

The story is exciting and intriguing and I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book so expected the narrator to read it the same way I had imagined it would be read in my head. However she is so monotonous and the last word of each sentence ends on the same downward depressing pitch it makes listening so difficult, she sounds like she's being forced to narrate and just didn't coincide with the story. I gave her the benefit of the doubt though because I love the story so so much but it took a few listening to get over the narrators voice though. Story is well worth it. Having read reviews after listening I saw others complain about inaccuracies to actual history although I wasn't aware it was meant to be anything other than a novel so as a dramatic novel I give it that!

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Amazing

Fascinating story, which has some factual basis. To be honest I struggled with the American accent at first but once I got use to it, it was fine. Gripping story from start to finish

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Plodding, dreary and unrealistic

I started this thinking it was historical fiction, but perhaps that was my mistake. It turned out to be a lighthearted, uninteresting romance. In fact I felt the author really did a disservice to those female spies who did so much during WWII. The storyline was weak and plodding. I stuck with it until the girls all began to gossip in nightclubs, parties, bars, restaurants, using each other's real names and talking about their missions! The author succeeded in portraying the young female spies as a group of silly fluffy little girls whilst also dropping their hugely successful academic studies into the mix. If they were so well educated and had such sharp fine minds they simply wouldn't have behaved the way they did. They were painted as strong modern thinking young women, none of whom needed men to complete their lives.....yet they all hooked up with various men throughout the book! Strangely there were 40-odd chapters slowly covering their first mission and I began to wonder if the storyline would continue in a follow-up novel, because I could see there were only a few chapters left to wrap up all the many loose ends. However, all of a sudden the story began to race full speed to the end. It reminded me of sitting an English exam and being told I only had 10 minutes left to finish!

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