Orphan Monster Spy by Matt Killeen is a historical fiction book about the Holocaust. It is told from the POV of Sarah, a Jewish teenage girl whose German father’s genes allow her to fly under the radar. When Sarah meets a British spy in the war, she is recruited by him to go undercover at a school for Nazi girls to find out the plans of a Nazi scientist.
I don’t usually read historical fiction, but I really liked this book. Sarah was an interesting character and even when the action stopped, her spying never did. Sarah’s skills of deduction and blending in were extremely impressive, and I was on the edge of my seat wondering when she might falter. This book was actually pretty slow at the start. However, this is probably because of the massive exposition that was needed for Sarah’s character.
There were definitely some disturbing triggers in the book. Sarah was frequently abused by her classmates at the school and some of the other children and teachers had also been through a lot. This book was very historically accurate, and the trope of the young girl spying without suspicion is actually one based on real young women in WWII.
Overall, I would give this book…
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.
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