I have been completely transfixed by Kate’s latest book and life in my small household has been frozen Comet my cat has been woefully unimpressed by my continued focus on reading it and not on capitulating to his every feline whim! As with creative skill and significant research, she weaves an authentic and fascinating story of the woman or women each of her books focuses on. Kate’s books for me, recalibrate this limited viewpoint of the anonymity of women. As if women had no significant part to play on the world stage in times past as we are merely a footnote in time, relegated to kitchens or nurseries. What predominantly draws me to Kate’s books is her ability to reveal the lives and accomplishments of remarkable women, whose courage, resilience, determination, and skills which until now have been shielded from our exploration by the continued patriarchal recounting of history. It is my pleasure today to be reviewing Kate Quinn’s latest book The Diamond Eye I have been aware of Kate’s previous books and I have The Alice Network to listen to on audiobook very shortly and I am relishing the experience to come. The Diamond Eye is a haunting novel of heroism born of desperation, of a mother who became a soldier, of a woman who found her place in the world and changed the course of history forever.

But when an old enemy from Mila’s past joins forces with a terrifying new foe, she finds herself in the deadliest duel of her life. There, she finds an unexpected ally in First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and an unexpected promise of a different future. Mila is torn from the battlefields of the eastern front and sent to America while the war still rages.

Handed a rifle, Mila discovers a gift – and months of blood, sweat and tears turn the young woman into a deadly sniper: the most lethal hunter of Nazis. Suddenly, she and her friends must take up arms to save their country from the Fuhrer’s destruction.

And the one they least expect… In the snowbound city of Kiev, aspiring historian Mila Pavlichenko’s life revolves around her young son – until Hitler’s invasion of Russia changes everything. New from the bestselling author of The Rose Code, which was an immediate #2 New York Times and #1 Canadian Globe and Mail bestseller, an Indie Pick and Amazon Best Book of March 2021īased on true historical facts: Like her previous novels, Kate has been inspired by real events and people, basing Mila, her sniper heroine, on a real-life female figure My review is based on my experience of the book and any thoughts expressed here are solely mine alone. Thank you to Anne Cater, Random Things Tours & Harper Collins, for my lovely, gifted copy and for having me on the blog tour for this book. Available: 29th March 2022 in Hardback, eBook & audiobook

The diamond eye kate quinn review