This book has piqued my interest to read Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper (Lyudmila’s real memoir). Her story is incredible and I’d be more inclined to hear it from Mila herself.

I struggled to understand the fictionalized heroine’s motives throughout (she hardly mentions the son she “went to war for” in the third act!)…

There wasn’t much I connected with: I found the love interests superficial and WWII dramatizations aren’t really for me…

Overall, the writing was okay. In places, it was overly corny. And unfortunately sometimes just outright bad.