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Palace of Treason Review By Sithmi In the return of the beloved Dominika Egorova and Nathaniel Nash, we find that our Russian agent, code named DIVA, has a horrible superior. Alexei Zyuganov, the Chief of Line KR, the counterintelligence department in Russia, is a rotten little dwarf with dark eyes who wants to see Dominika fail publicly. And it seems he was going to stop at nothing to make sure of it. It goes to show that Russia truly will backstab their own if it means they as individuals will win. So the story is set to show that it’s a fight to showcase their strengths, and their devout loyalty to the Rhodina , Motherland, between Colonel Egorova and Chief Zyuganov as each of them develop their own agents on foreign soil. But moreover, it’s a fight to win the favour of the reclusive President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. In the middle of this fight, we discover a new mole appears inside the CIA, providing the Russians and Alexei with great intel. Slowly it becomes apparent to the...

Red Sparrow Review By Sithmi At the beginning, I had no idea what was going on. I had jumped smack dab into the middle of a secret battle. To be honest, it took me three chapters maximum to find my bearings. But after that, it was a game of traitors, betrayals and secrets all under wraps and deceiving appearances. Right away we are introduced to two of our main characters, Nathaniel Nash, a young case officer handling his Russian agent MARBLE in the quiet streets of Moscow. MARBLE is the chief of the Americas Department in the SVR, which gives him access to documents and as a long run agent, he has become a legend. The story continues to introduce the other main character, Dominika Egorova, our real focus, a ballerina in her 20s. But in an unfortunate accident, she breaks her leg and has to diminish her dancing career dreams and instead work for her uncle Ivan Vanya Egorov since she has nowhere else to go and needs the job to pay the medical care for her mother. Under the impression sh...