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Night Flight to Paris

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A definite fats read and quick paced novel, though with so so many twists and turns that you actually end up confused, asking yourself what just happened, basically doubting your intelligence and had to read some parts again so, not a good one for me. didn't love the first one and the second one was all the same.

Thanks to NetGally for providing my copy of this book.

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I didn't realize when I requested this that it was the second book in a series. That being said, I did truly give this a try. I definitely felt like the narrator was the best part of this book; their use of accents and dialects was amazing and definitely worth the listen. Narrator aside, I was so lost. It happens all the time when I get ARCs for series and when I read them out of order they still make sense. Having not read the first for this one though I was entirely confused on who's who in the zoo and how they interconnect. They kept talking about things I presume were events of the first book, and I think a lot of it was lost on me.

I had to DNF this at 25%, purely from my own faults. The narrator was amazing, and I'm sure the book would be great too if I weren't missing major plot points brought out from the first.

Thank you so much for this ARC! I'll definitely keep this on the app though, I imagine I will come to read the first in the series and revisit this and it will hopefully make more sense.

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I found this started slow, but I'm happy I stuck with it as it turned into a thrilling story. Kate is sent to Paris to extricate a fellow spy and to take out a Nazi officer, but nothing seems to go according to plan, and no one can--or will--tell her the whole truth. Forced to rely on her wits, she manages to succeed, only to find herself on a plane to Cairo with even murkier orders! She's told several times that she's expendable, and she trusts no one. Driven by a desire to seek revenge for the deaths of her husband and daughter, it's unclear whether she'll continue to follow orders from the secret service.

Thanks to Recorded Books for access to a digital ALC via NetGalley.

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I had a hard time he into this one. I didn’t know it was the second in a series and had a hard time catching up to what was going on.

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I received an ALC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I was not a fan of this story. I’m not sure if it was simply because I didn’t realize it was the second in a series or if it was the story in general. I felt confused for a good chunk of the story. It was all very, Kate did this, and then this, and then this, without much background content. I was confused as to why Kate was shipped all over the place without knowing why she was going where (which I guess was the whole point of the book, her not really knowing what was going on). And why did they have a trained sniper doing all those courier things instead of just going in to take someone out? Any other ‘spy’ books I’ve read about WWII seemed to have had more of an actual plot than this one.

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Great story. I loved the main character, a woman sharpshooter, The book was full of twists, not predictable like some mysteries.

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Once a spy always a spy. Kate coninues her journey in Paris. She doesnt wany to be part of Brithish military but her friend is in danger and she cannot say no. She might be wrong about some of her friends. James Bourne as a female durring WWII

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Well if you want to read about someone with guts then Kate is your woman. She is a sharp shooter, but alot more
is involved than being a sharp shooter. She is a spy, secret agent and sharp shooter and one strong woman. This is a story about bravery and guts that the women of WWII had in order to help win the war against Hitler.

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This is book 2 in the Kate Rees WWII Series. In this book Kate Rees is a trained marksman and she has a secret mission, to assassinate Hitler. Can she stay alive, help her friend, and complete her mission? This is a fast-paced and wonderful book.

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War torn Europe, spies and espionage, secret lives and hidden mystery - a great read. Take the time to absorb yourself in this thrilling tale that will keep those pages turning.

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Kate has lost her family to the vicious Nazi, and ever since she has been keen to get her revenge. The time has come, but her mission is full of dangerous secrets and surprises. She risks her life to avoid getting captured or killed to help her friend. But the discovery that her friend can be a foe is the greatest disappointment of all.

My love for WWII novels returns with Cara Black's latest novel Night Flight to Paris. The book starts slow, but it picks up the pace very fast. The plot is filled with many unanswered questions, secrets, and hidden facts. Kate's character is bold and brave. I loved her story. The ending of the novel was phenomenal. Great WWII novel, would recommend it to any WWII or historical fiction lover.

Thank you, NetGalley for a free and advanced copy of the novel.

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Thank you to NetGalley for this audiobook.

I'm reminded of a James Bond/Mission Impossible, but a female lead. So many twists and surprises and never a dull moment. This is the 2nd book in a series featuring Kate Rees. She continues to kick butt.

I love the narrator. She is one of my favorites.. She did a great job with this novel.

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DNF at 50%

This book was one high stress scene after the other with no reprieve. Add to this the fact that there were many characters and it was difficult to keep track of who was who and what the mission was, I just got too lost and became not invested in the plot. It was getting boring for me, so I decided not to finish.

Kate is a sniper but she’s on a spy/recovery mission and it’s obvious that she has no idea what she’s doing. She apparently keeps getting lucky, though I have no idea what happens after the 50% mark because I just don’t care enough to finish.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy of this audiobook. I wish I could rate it higher but sadly I cannot.

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A wonderfully written historical fictional story that once again highlights how women were (and continue to be) so important in the military. The narration was absolutely stellar and I highly recommend listening to this, though am sure the read is as enjoyable. Kate is an American markswoman and sniper. She is currently living a quiet life and thinks she is done with her missions. And then she gets called back into service. It’s compelling with many twists and turns along the way. A great listen. Though part of a series, I felt this could easily be read as a standalone.

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Thank you to NetGalley and RB Media, Recorded Books for an early audiobook version of Night Flight to Paris read by Elisabeth Rodgers. This is the 2nd in a series about Kate Rees. Although the novel is a sequel to “Three Hours in Paris”, not having read that is no disadvantage, as "Night Flight to Paris" works well on its own. This book was fast-paced and completely captivating. It’s suspenseful and gets your adrenaline pumping. I hope there will be more adventures for Kate to take us on as I am not quite ready to say goodbye to her just yet.

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Action-packed from the very first minute, this second in the Kate Rees series picks up a few years after the first. It can be read as a stand-alone, but the ending of this installment suggest that going forward you'll need to read the whole series in order.

We find our protagonist sniper sent out on a mission with very little information, other than to trust no one. But when the missions keep changing and operatives end up being double and triple agents, this reader had difficulty keeping up and just had to follow along, diminishing my interest in the story.

Audiobook narrator, Elisabeth Rodgers, performed excellently, handling various accents well.

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I never read the first Kate Rees and I couldn't get into this one. The first 25% of the book I was intrigued hooked. It felt fast paced and a mystery and exciting. Then it just started to be repetitive. Kate gets sent somewhere, she doesn't want to go but goes, she doesn't understand what's happening and doesn't trust anyone but follows along, again she knows she cannot trust anyone and asks a bunch of questions and cannot trust the answer. Just ughhhh....too bad because the beginning felt promising.

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This book just wasn’t for me. I really wanted to like it. But for some reason I kept zoning out and kept losing interest. I started over several times but it just couldn’t hold my interest. I’m not sure if it was the story or the narrator. I didn’t care for the narration. Maybe I’ll try reading the book instead.

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I was given a prepub audiobook for this one. I enjoyed the story, but it was hard to keep the timing straight and who was who. The narrator spoke so low and quiet at points, I couldn't hear her. Kate has good aim, but mentally doesn't make a great sniper. She questions herself constantly - like far too much - and we are in her head a lot. "Think" "Concentrate" "but who" "but why" and all the thoughts ending in a question. It was like watching an episode of Oak Island. We also need a little something left to the imagination. She grabbed her tennis bag, which contained her disassembled Lee-Enfield rifle. Right. Got it. After the first few times, we know her tennis bag contains her disassembled Lee-Enfield rifle. You do not need to repeat that her tennis bag contains her disassembled Lee-Enfield rifle every time you mention that she grabs her tennis bag with her disassembled Lee-Enfield rifle. So many things flying around in her head did not need to be put to page. As you go through the story, the reader intuits these things and it adds to the fun of creating suspense in the story. It's annoying to hear over and over.
So the story - Kate has nothing left to lose and bit of avenging to do, so she volunteers for the war. Having been raised on a farm in Oregon, she is a sharp shooter, so that's the job she's given. As she receives more and more orders, though, she's thrust into the world of double agents and she is not prepared for it. She does her duty, though, and it is a good story that keeps the blood pumping as she goes from site to site carrying out her orders. This story does not stop, even at the end. The descriptions are good and not overwhelming in detail. This also showed a side of WWII that isn't written much about in history books.

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All hail Cara Black who brings us a second book with WWII British sniper Kate Rees. We first met Kate not too long after her husband and baby were killed in a Nazi air raid. She grew up in Northeast Oregon on a ranch, educated well by her father in shooting and in learning how to make one's way in the wild. Kate was discovered by British intelligence (I forget which agency) and recruited to go to Paris and kill Hitler. We know how that went in the wonderful first book, Three Hours in Paris. And now, we've got us a series!

I listened, with pleasure, to the audio edition of Night Flight to Paris. Kate is working as a sniper instructor in Scotland when new orders come in. Her longtime friend Margot, also an agent, needs to be extracted from Paris and a particular German must be taken out, liquified, done in. You know. Sniped. Intelligence he acquired in Egypt could alert Hitler to the Allies' next move in the war, which would disabuse him of the carefully planted misinformation that they would next move on Poland/Eastern Europe. In fact, the plan is to invade North Africa. (That happened.) Black then takes us on a hair raising series of interactions, changed plans, the need to constantly judge who to trust when one's mantra is "trust no-one." The Nazis are entrenched in Paris and there is a reward on Kate's head. Now, albeit in a Red Cross nurse disguise and equipped with some pretty fancy firearms, Kate has to move all over the city with no clear idea who her contacts are, where the target will be and also, where the heck Margot is.

Black's writing style is recognizable with Kate's thoughts shared in clipped partial sentences. I sat outside my house on three separate occasions listening to the end of an engrossing section of the story. There are lots of great characters. The feel of being in Paris in a time of great danger is palpable. And multiple twists make this a unique WWII thriller. I highly recommend Night Flight to Paris. If you like audio books, this was beautifully narrated so go for it.

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