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Like all of the Elizabeth Wein books I've read, this was so well written and engaging. I had such a hard time putting it down and just read the second half in one sitting. This one definitely felt like a thriller and I had to know what was coming next. I loved the big cast and how the different countries of Europe were represented. I would've loved to learn more about some of the characters, but it would've been a lot to open it to more of them, so it was probably a good call letting some of them be vague figures.

My one real knock on this one is that the romance felt abrupt and forced. It felt like, for a large part of the book, there wouldn't be one at all, but maybe there was sort of a love triangle? And then suddenly in the last 50 pages, she was thinking she couldn't live without one of the guys. Meanwhile, I'd been thinking we were just gonna skip the romance and the book would've been perfectly fine without it.