The Kennedy Girl
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From esteemed author Julia Bryan Thomas comes a novel for readers who loved the fashion and glamour of The Secret Life of Mirielle West and the clandestine intrigue of The Secrets We Kept, showcasing a journey to France through the eyes of a wide-eyed American orphan who becomes embroiled in an international espionage scheme. 1960. New York, Paris and Milan fashion culture is starting to make an impression on the average American woman. When a mysterious bakery customer suddenly offers newly orphaned Mia a modeling job in Paris at the esteemed House of Rousseau, she takes a chance on it, despite it seeming too good to be true. But the job of a model goes deeper than photoshoots and runway walks, and as Mia adjusts to the Parisienne lifestyle, she soon finds herself implicated in an espionage plot run by the very fashion house she works for. As she is drawn further into national crimes and politics, Mia will soon have to decide which side of history she's really on.
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I enjoyed this Cold War spy thriller, although the title was somewhat misleading—the main character only resembles and idolizes Jackie Kennedy, who does actually make a brief cameo appearance.
Mia Walker goes to Paris as a model and ends up involved in Cold War intrigue. Her adventures are somewhat unbelievable but very entertaining. I stayed up late to finish the final third of the book, eager to find out which characters were on which “team.” This was a fun read that I would recommend to readers of Susan Elia Macneal's Maggie Hope series..
I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
