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Jason Matthews: Red sparrow (2013, Scribner) 3 stars

Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, …

Review of 'Red sparrow' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

I keep thinking, this is definitely written by a man.

I liked the first parts of the book. But when her uncle brings her in to do a "favor" that ends up pimping her out, that was gross. And then later, she's put on whore school? Not credible and gross to me. Narrator says she finds various things distasteful yet she keeps doing them.

And Nate is supposedly blame worthy for being outed as a spy by process of elimination and good basic tracking of comings and goings at the embassy? Not buying it.