4.5 stars. This is my second Kate Quinn book in a row. I’m a big fan of well researched and well written historical fiction with strong female characters and fascinating stories and this book about a WWII female sniper named Lyudmila Pavlichenko definitely fits that bill. The battlefront portion of the book was my favorite. The portions set in America were a little too drawn out. This passage from the beginning of Chapter 13 really spoke to me: “My memoir, the unofficial version: Snipers must make themselves calm in order to succeed, and that is why women are good at sharpshooting. Because there is not a woman alive who has not learned how to eat rage in order to appear calm.”