5/27/13

His Majesty's Hope by Susan Elia MacNeal



  ★★★¾

GENRE: Mystery
SUBJECT: espionage, mass murder
Setting: London, Berlin
CHARACTERS: Maggie Hope, Hugh Thompson, Elise Hess, Clara Hess, Father Licht
DATE READ: May 22 - May 27
NO. OF PAGES: 354
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?:   Yes, LT ER for review

PLOT:......................................4.50
CHARACTERIZATION:.........4.00
TOPICS:..................................4.00
STYLE:....................................4.00
ORIGINALITY:.........................3.00
ADDICTIVENESS: ................4.00
OWNERSHIP:.........................3.50
THRESHOLD QUALITY:........3.25
Average..............................................................3.78


This third installment of the adventures of Maggie Hope really do get to be adventures.  Maggie not only parachutes into enemy territory, attends a party where she meets several of the Nazi upper brass, but she finds that she has a half sister that is unaware of her existence.

This reader was on the edge of her seat throughout!

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