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Monday, March 14, 2016

The Pursuit of Pearls

I won Jane Thynne's novel The Pursuit of Pearls (#552) in a GoodReads First Reads giveaway.  I thought the premise was intriguing; an English woman working in the German film industry in Hitler's Germany decides to work undercover for British Intelligence as she mingles with German High Society.  When one of the Faith and Beauty Girls who has been working as an intern with Clara Vine's film company is found murdered in the woods Clara finds herself making a foolish promise to her parents to try to discover who killed Lotte.  There are plenty of candidates, since Lotte was enrolled in the program to turn out suitable wives for officers of Hitler's High Command. 

I thought that this would be a murder mystery with the additional twist of Nazi Germany for the background, but it turned out to be surprisingly boring, and despite having picked it up and put it down on at least four occasions, I finally came to the conclusion that it wasn't worth any more of my time.  I have plenty of books I really want to read, so I'm dropping this one in the trash.  (Besides, it had a nasty, decadent feel to it that I did not care for.  Ugh.)

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