The description of this book made it sound right up my alley so I went in with high expectations, but this ended up not being what I thought it would be. It focuses mostly on Ady’s coming of age and the actual spy group mentioned in the title/description doesn’t come until two-thirds of the way through. So much of the first third could have been condensed so we could spend more time with characters that were introduced later on. 

I didn’t feel connected any of the characters, especially not Ady. I never got a good sense of who she was as a person. It just felt like she did what needed to be done for the plot to move forward, not because it aligned with her values as a character. The writing felt distant from what was going on and how the characters felt. There were very serious and real situations that these women spies were in but the writing didn’t give those situations any emotional weight. There were also some random mixed media elements in the form of excerpts from other memoirs, interviews, etc. that didn’t feel fleshed out and they didn’t really add anything.

I wanted to like it but it just ended up not working for me at all.