The Spymaster's Lady by Joanna Bourne

[lightreads]

The Spymaster's Lady

3/5. Historical het romance. She is an elusive French agent. He is a British chief of section. They meet in a prison cell.

I enjoyed this, which is quite an extraordinary statement considering that there is a plot point about her being blind for the first chunk of the book and then she is cured by getting hit really hard in the head. And yet I still enjoyed it, despite that and also the inevitable mistaken identity nonsense that followed. There's just a richness to the secondary characters, and a pull of true tension to the conflicts of loyalty.

Comments

[readerjane]

That's.... got to be some pretty amazing character work. *notes in TBR list*

[cathexys]

I was surprised how much enjoyed it as well. Though the 'cure' was not great. But I realized with that book that 'putting coins in your stocking to make a weapon' apparently is a trope, bc it was like the third book in a row where I saw that. (It's like diving into a new fandom and learning the fanon :)

I tried a couple more in the series, but this one was the only one I finished...

[lokifan]

LOLLLLLL yep. The later books in the series are not necessarily any less ridiculous, but they're less annoyingly so. She's very good at what she does.