Cara Black

Three Hours in Paris by Cara Black is the first in a series about a female sniper during WW II but I can’t say that it has encouraged me to continue on as I wasn’t particularly gripped or intrigued by the book. Although it was meant to be a thriller, I was rather bored by the story.

Kate Rees has lost her husband and baby in a tragic bombing incident and so when approached to get involved in undercover work for British Intelligence she jumped at the change to revenge herself upon the Germans. She was unaware that she was in actual fact being sent to Paris as an expendable decoy. She was expected to get caught, be tortured and killed, distracting the Germans from another mission. While some of this cat-and-mouse story is exciting, on the whole it fell flat as Kate escapes from one impossible situation after another.

Overall I found Three Hours in Paris felt forced and contrived. The characters were remote and it was rather unbelievable that Kate would be more efficient and successful than the trained spies she comes into contact with. I found myself more annoyed with the story than interested in it so I highly doubt that I will be continuing on with this series.… (mais)

I did not like this book. While the story was alright, I was disappointed at the dismissive and often disrespectful tone she took about the resistance fighters and other operatives. In the heroines eyes the other operatives and her own superiors were bumbling and inept sending her off with no information about her mission. Then for example, in her first major act of her mission she sits in the wrong seat number
at the movie theater and has to scramble to find the info she needed, It made me wonder how the underground did not lose the war for the Allies.… (mais)