{Review} Dancer Daughter Traitor Spy @SohoTeen

A new breed of spy novel combines classic thrills (The Americans, John Le Carre, and Alan Furst), Bolshoi intrigue, and elements of the paranormal.Marina is born of privilege. Her mother, Sveta, is the Soviet Union's prima ballerina: an international star handpicked by the regime. But Sveta is afflicted with a mysterious second sight and becomes obsessed with exposing a horrific state secret. Then she disappears. 

Fearing for their lives, Marina and her father defect to Brooklyn. Marina struggles to reestablish herself as a dancer at Juilliard. But her enigmatic partner, Sergei, makes concentration almost impossible, as does the fact that Marina shares her mother's “gift,” and has a vision of her father’s murder at the hands of the Russian crooks and con artists she thought they'd left behind.  

Now Marina must navigate the web of intrigue surrounding her mother's disappearance, her ability, and exactly whom she can—and can't—trust.

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About this author

Elizabeth Kiem is a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.

She has worked as a journalist for Reuters, NPR, and CNN and as a communications consultant for Unicef.

She has lived in Brooklyn for more than 15 years. Before that she lived in Moscow as it entered a new era.
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Twenty years out of pointe shoes, she dances salsa and swing ... but she still has dreams on toe. They're every bit as good as the dreams where she flies.

Her husband is Ted. Her son is Henry. Her father is John. Which means that in Russian, she is Elizaveta Ivanovna.

I tried so hard to love this book. It is set in 1982 which is of course the year I was born.  Which made me want to love it even more.  But with almost no plot at all and a reading pace that is like molassas I just couldnt do it.  After 100 pages of wanting to pass out every ten seconds I just had to put it down!  So now I call to you my readers to see if this is something you would like to read instead! So I have a wonderful finished copy of this one up for grabs!


"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

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