Mer Barr

This is the type of science fiction and young adult that I enjoy; alot of technology and not alot of young adult angst. It also has a plot that moves along, no side tracking for topics that aren't relevant or pausing for too long, and characters that have some depth to them.

Lots of complexity and parallel stories that keep the answers, for me, unclear til almost the end. And the end wrapped up nicely. Not too fast, not too slow.

I'm always hesitant when I start the second book in a series because they either aren't about the characters I came to love in book one or it may be the same characters but the storyline is lacking in some quality that the first book had. This book is neither.

The references to the nursery rhymes of the 50 to 70s remind me alot of Ready Player One where you have to have lived in the era to understand the references. Here you have that requirement but this is not really about homage but about creatively tweaking those childhood stories.

It has plenty of complexity to keep the murder mystery good to the very end AND you have many of the same characters from book one.

I thought the storyline sounded interesting but not sure what the 5 or 6 chapters at the start are all about. They're all just quotes from books that usually would be at the start of a chapter only, but in here they're the entire chapter. I eventually found some chapters that seemed to be about Willie Lincoln but I couldn't get interested by that point.

Maybe this makes sense in textual format?

A good read about the beginnings of the US CIA, this time from the women's perspective, and their roles in winning World War II for the Allied forces.

First time I read this, back in the 90s most likely, I gave it 4 stars. On reading #2 I've quit reading before the halfway mark because the plot is not drawing me in.

It's reading #3 and I've have more interest in the main character and the story to make it to the end.

This is a 3-strikes book for me.

It's hard for me to become interested in a book that doesn't continue the story of the characters from the prior book in a series. This book starts out confusing because the main character's name sounds similar to a character introduced towards the end of the first book, but there are no references I recognized to that prior character. And the story just wasn't capturing my imagination as a stand-alone or new storyline in the same universe.

Sorry Anne and Jody Lynn.

First time I read this, back in the 90s most likely, I gave it 4 stars. On reading #2 I've quit reading before the halfway mark because the plot is not drawing me in.

It's reading #3 and I've have more interest in the main character and the story to make it to the end.