With The Huntress, we knew who she was from the start and we spent time following her attempt to escape and all those against her. And then the eventual reveal was a little too obvious for me. The problem for me is that I didn’t even realize there was supposed to be a threat in the “present day” of the story until we were partway through it. It’s going to be hard to beat The Huntress for me. I’ll admit that The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn isn’t my favorite of the books. Who wants her dead, and why? Unraveling the mysteries in The Diamond Eye While all that happens, she’s also dealing with threatening notes and the sense that someone is following her. She and a few of the men are there to get the support they need, but can Mila help the people look past the fact that she’s a woman? It helps that she manages to befriend Eleanor Roosevelt, but will that be enough? The Soviets are losing against the German Army. She’s asked all the usual sexist questions, which makes her annoyed when it comes to wanted to help gain the American support in the Second World War.

And despite the fact that she has 300+ kills, she’s expected to only talk about things the American people would like from a woman. Life as a Soviet sniper isn’t all that glamorous. We get to see her life before she became a sniper, the life during training, the heartbreak and loss she faced, and her friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt.

The novel follows Russia’s top female sniper during the Second World War, Lyudmila ‘Mila’ Pavilichenko. I finished the book as soon as it was out! What is The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn about? It’s just taken me a while to write this review. That’s been the case with The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn. And I’ll usually devour it within a week of it being released if I didn’t get an advanced review copy. As soon as I see a new book from her, I’ll mark it as “want to read” on my Goodreads account. Whenever you see a book from Kate Quinn, you’ll want it to be an automatic “want to read.” That’s certainly the case with The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn.Īfter the likes of The Huntress and The Rose Code, Kate Quinn has become one of those authors I immediately look out for.

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