Kate Quinn writes the finest in historical fiction in her well researched blend of fact and fiction, based on real life characters in this vibrant and thrilling novel set in the post-WW2 era of the 1940s and 1950s. Quinn illuminates the little known bravery, courage and fearlessness of what the Nazis referred to as The Night Witches, the all Russian female night bombers who managed to wreak devastating damage behind German lines. Nina Markova, a fiercely strong, independent, larger than life, fr...

5+++ starsWell, I have my first serious contender to The Heart’s Invisible Furies as my book of 2019. I loved Ms. Quinn’s The Alice Network, but The Huntress is simply brilliant!Three alternating narrators tell the story. We have Ian Graham, a troubled British war correspondent who after the war turns his mission into bringing war criminals to justice. Then there is Nina Markova, my favorite character by far. Nina is a lost soul until she fights her way into becoming a member of the Soviet all w...

There’ll be a chance, Nina Borisovna, her father had said. Don’t ask, when you see it. Just fucking take it. 4 1/2 stars. I love historical fiction that introduces me to little areas of history that school lessons and history books never taught me about. Fiction is my passion, but I love it even more when it uncovers oft-buried truths. Here, Quinn blends fact and fiction to tell a story about three women: a murderess on the run, an aspiring photographer who may be in danger in her own home, a...

World War II is over, and (now) former war correspondent Ian Graham is standing in its ashes. It might have been enough to say that they've all passed through a long, dark time and come out of it alive, if not unscathed. Ian might have gone about his life and done his best to bury the specter of war and walk away from it. Most would have. Ian Graham didn’t. Not when Lorelei Vogt, the Nazi war criminal known as the Huntress, is still out there. “I’m done writing instead of doing,” becomes Ian's m...

A journalist, a lawyer, and a Russian woman pilot are teaming up to find the ruthless, dangerous Nazi war criminal Huntress to bring back justice. This is a breathtaking, compulsive, fantastic journey with amazing and memorable characters. My all-time favorites are Nina Markova, a curses-like sailor who flies like a bird in the air, a powerful, vivid, feverish, fearless pilot. She is a great portrait of a night witch hunter!And Jordan, a young but so smart, talented photographer, the50’s version...

"They called her die Jagerin-the Huntress. She was the young mistress of an SS officer in German-occupied Poland, the hostess of grand parties on the lake, a keen shot. Perhaps she was the rusalka the lake was named for-a lethal, malevolent water spirit."Here lies Chelsea, dead from a book slump brought on by The Huntress, because for once the hype lived up to my expectations and the book's execution. I'm not an avid reader of historical fiction, and in the past year I decided that I was taking ...

4.5 stars rounded up! Ian, Tony, and Nina join forces to track the Huntress. Nina was a Russian Bomber Pilot. The Huntress was a Nazi War criminal. In the aftermath of the war Hunter becomes the hunted. Nina gambled everything to join the Night Witches, which is an all female night bomber regiment wrecking havoc on Hitler's eastern front. But when she is thrown across the path of a lethal Nazi murderess known as the huntress, Nina must use all her wits to survive. Jordan McBride is seventeen yea...

2 stars. I simply couldn’t connect with this book.This novel revolves around a Russian female bomber pilot and a British war reporter who work together as Nazi hunters. Their main goal is to track down “The Huntress” a notorious Nazi war criminal who is said to have taken on a new identity living in the USA. I am the outlier with my feelings on this novel. I had the same disappointment happen with the author’s previous book, The Alice Network. My biggest issue was the characters - they lacked au...

I had such a hard time with this novel, kept putting it down, picking it back up, finally finished with mixed feelings. What I liked:All the parts that pertain to Nina, she was by far my favorite character.Reading about the Russian women and their piloting adventures.The amount of research that went into this book, which is detailed in the authors note.Also appreciate said note, telling the reader was was factual and what was not. What I had difficulties with.The present day story, Jordan and he...

This was going to be a 4+ star read until the ending, wow that bumped it up to 5+ stars!!! The authors notes at the end of the book are just as interesting to read as the book. Knowing that much of the book is based on actual events and real people made the book come alive for me that much more. From the blurb you know that there is a team that is still hunting Nazi war criminals even after the Nuremberg trials. We are now in the late 1940’s and it’s getting harder and harder to find survivors w...