Orphan Monster Spy

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I'm giving this a full 5 stars because I loved the book so much that I don't even remember nor care about what I took a 0.5 off. I still keep thinking about it and I want to read it again, and so you see, I'm still in a book hangover a full month later. That's how powerful this is. Lo menos que me ha gustado son los recurrentes sueños, aunque, en muchas ocasiones, eran recuerdos, lo cual te acercaba más a la protagonista. The plot was chillingly uncomfortable. A lot of things happens that make you gag. Or chill you to the bone.

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This book is a World War II novel. The main protagonist is Sarah, who is a Jew with an Aryan appearance. After her mother get killed abandoned and alone she meets a man who turns out it be a spy. She is recruited by him to to be a spy and go inside and infiltrated a Nazi boarding school.Set in a brilliant, terrifyingly-imagined third reich Germany, Orphan Monster Spy's Sarah sits alongside Lyra and True Grit's Mattie Ross as one of the best spiky, clever, daring, unyielding protagonists I've read.” Martin Stewart, author of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-longlisted Riverkeep Not quite implausible I suppose, the entire premise is flimsy at best. A German Jewish orphan is recruited by a British agent/spy (agent of what, exactly?) on a complete whim, admitted into a high-ranking Nazi boarding school with a story that doesn’t add up, and tasked with befriending the daughter of an eminent scientist to gain access to his lab notes. H’m.

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What is the best piece of advice they, or indeed anyone else, has given you as a first‐time author? Saskia Maarleveld -While it wasn’t a favored performance for me, personally, I think she was a good fit for the story. I loved how this story explores the concept of monsters, what it means to be one, how you can go about creating one, and what defines a monster. The school is like a nightmare. Like Inglourious Basterds for tweens, this clever YA title features Sarah, a blond, blue-eyed Jewish girl in 1939 Germany."-- The New York PostMost WWII novels that I read are either focused on the Allies and their efforts, be that spying or fighting or general history, or on the Holocaust and those in prison camps. I find both fiction and non-fiction books on these two topics really interesting, and up to this point, I was happy sort of staying in that lane. I didn't know I was hoping for a book like Orphan Monster Spy until I read it--one that focuses on the war from a completely unique viewpoint, one that doesn't shy away from the brutality and the horrors of the Nazi party just because it's a YA book, one that really makes me hope for a sequel despite the fact that it's going to take me a while to recover from this first one.