The Alice Network is a historical fiction book, half of which is set during World War I from the POV of Eve, a Femme Fatale Spy, and half of which is set after World War II from the perspective of Charlie, a grieving Pregnant Teen searching for a missing cousin. It's exciting and intriguing and kind of pushes my boundaries. The ending is happy and resolves the various subplots realistically, with characters still broken but healing. There's an author's note about the research that went into the book, which I liked. Honestly, it's one of my favorite books.
That said, it's pretty disturbing and semi-explicit. Most of the main characters are suffering from trauma and dealing with grief in some form. If you don't feel like reading something with strong themes of death and suicide, or you wouldn't be comfortable reading sex scenes where the narrator actively despises the man she's sleeping with, don't read.
Pretty dark, but loved it anyway (no spoilers)
The Alice Network is a historical fiction book, half of which is set during World War I from the POV of Eve, a Femme Fatale Spy, and half of which is set after World War II from the perspective of Charlie, a grieving Pregnant Teen searching for a missing cousin. It's exciting and intriguing and kind of pushes my boundaries. The ending is happy and resolves the various subplots realistically, with characters still broken but healing. There's an author's note about the research that went into the book, which I liked. Honestly, it's one of my favorite books.
That said, it's pretty disturbing and semi-explicit. Most of the main characters are suffering from trauma and dealing with grief in some form. If you don't feel like reading something with strong themes of death and suicide, or you wouldn't be comfortable reading sex scenes where the narrator actively despises the man she's sleeping with, don't read.
Trigger warnings:
Contains Questionable Consent and Sexual Extortion, (brief) mentions of child abuse, alcohol abuse, suicide, murder, descriptions of mass murder, PTSD, grief, trauma, Sex for Solace, teen pregnancy, physical fighting, semi-explicit sex, anger issues, infidelity