How can you not love the beginning? “The day I killed the Cossack was when it all began. If I think carefully, I can trace everything back to that slave market in St Petersburg – an illegal affair trafficking mostly Persians and Kurds foolish enough to cross the badlands of Khiva.”
The description of the setting is immersive. The efficacy of the images is stunning. I felt transported right in the middle of the square of old St Petersburg. Everything not essential to the plot, but crucial for the context is dealt with in an elegant and quick manner: a monument renovated for a certain empress, the few clothes around the narrator/protagonist, the cuffs that show we are talking about slaves. The fact that I discover the protagonist is a she only at page 3 makes me reset my unconsciously biased story so far. A pleasant shake of mindset.
The story is really intriguing and the setting exciting. I definitely want to see more of what happens in The Bastille Spy!
The description of the setting is immersive. The efficacy of the images is stunning. I felt transported right in the middle of the square of old St Petersburg. Everything not essential to the plot, but crucial for the context is dealt with in an elegant and quick manner: a monument renovated for a certain empress, the few clothes around the narrator/protagonist, the cuffs that show we are talking about slaves. The fact that I discover the protagonist is a she only at page 3 makes me reset my unconsciously biased story so far. A pleasant shake of mindset.
The story is really intriguing and the setting exciting. I definitely want to see more of what happens in The Bastille Spy!