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The Spy with the Red Balloon

(The Balloonmakers #2)

Katherine Locke (Goodreads Author)

4.27 · Rating details · 110 Ratings · 47 Reviews

Siblings Ilse and Wolf hide a deep secret in their blood: with it, they can work magic. And the government just found out.Blackmailed into service during World War II, Ilse lends her magic to America’s newest weapon, the atom bomb, while Wolf goes behind enemy lines to sabotage Germany’s nuclear program. It’s a dangerous mission, but if Hitler were to create the bomb first ...more

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May 06, 2018 Amy Leigh rated it really liked it

Shelves: edelweiss

I really enjoyed this book just as much as the first in this series! They read in a way that if you read them out of order you would be okay but I don't recommend missing either book. The way the author intertwines magic and history into a ya fantasy novel is brilliant.

Ilse and Wolf are siblings with a special type of magic that comes from their blood. This is World War II and they are both tricked into using their magic for the war. Wolf is a spy working on the Germans to try to keep Nazi Germ ...more

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Dec 12, 2016 Katherine Locke added it · (Review from the author)

Shelves: i-wrote-this

UPDATE: 9/24/17
IT HAS A TITLE! The Spy with the Red Balloon will arrive Fall 2018 (if everything stays on track...). Please enjoy my Queer Jewish Kids Punch Nazis While Doing Science and Sabotaging Hitler book.

Previous review:
To be fair, I haven't finished writing this book yet. But I wanted to leave a review in case people had questions when The Girl with the Red Balloon #1 ARCs started to appear in the new year:

1. This is not a sequel. It takes place about 45 years BEFORE the first book and h ...more

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Sep 22, 2018 Dahlia added it

Shelves: 2018-releases

I just can't get over how quickly and deeply I fell for these characters. As in the first book, some of the science and magic stuff went over my head, but I really didn't care. The writing is just so gorgeous, the characters so special, and the stakes so high I read this in a state of panic that was partly deserved but so well worth it.

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Jul 31, 2018 Abi (The Knights Who Say Book) rated it really liked it

Shelves: asexual-and-aromantic-spectrum, bi-or-pan-protagonist, diverse-reads, historical-fiction, jewish-ownvoices, lgbtqa-main-character, lgbtqa-minor-characters, mlm, arcs, sci-fi

My feelings about this book are intense and therefore completely indescribable, so this is going to be an utterly useless review.

Like, it has flaws? I definitely thought at times that the writing could just be overall better, and that it was too slow, and that it was somehow just not giving me enough even though I loved every concept in it. You know when you like a book but are at the same time completely exasperated by it? I think this book needed to give us more about Ilse's friends and how th ...more

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May 30, 2017 Lulu (the library leopard) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: tbr-series-cont, tbr-own

i see you, random person who decided to give this book a one star review even though it's a sequel to a book that isn't even OUT

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Sep 15, 2018 Kate Welsh rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fantasy, published-in-2018, read-in-2018, ya

Spies! World War II! Math and science and magic all intertwined! Big difficult philosophical questions! Historical fiction including characters of diverse races and religions and sexualities! Complicated sibling and friendship and romantic dynamics! SO MANY THINGS I LOVE ALL TOGETHER.

UPDATED 10/2: Read my blog post about the book and interview with author Katherine Locke right here!

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Sep 30, 2018 Clara rated it it was amazing

Shelves: jewish-characters, favorites, my-shelf

This exceeded all of my expectations, and then some. I'm going to be recommending this at every opportunity.

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Sep 02, 2018 MsArdychan rated it it was amazing

Please Note: I received an advance copy of this book from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. This did not influence the opinions of my review in any way.

Reading The Girl With The Red Balloon last year, I was struck by how the author, Katherine Locke created both an historical novel, and an imaginative fantasy novel. Her newest book, The Spy With The Red Balloon, takes place in the same universe of magic, but with a different historical setting and characters. Once again, I am blown away ...more

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Sep 07, 2017 Bekka marked it as to-read

I'm ready to suffer

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Aug 31, 2018 Annalee rated it it was amazing

This book was just as good as it's companion novel, The Girl With The Red Balloon. I loved how realistic this book was and how it made the magic seem possible. The writing style was brilliant and I can' t wait to read more by Ms. Locke. The characters were also very well written and I loved them with all of my heart. The plot was very intense and I was kept on the edge of my seat the whole book.

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May 03, 2018 Emme Huffman rated it it was amazing

This is a wonderful companion to The Girl with the Red Balloon. I love Ilse and Wolf so much. Ilse is unapologetically smart and resourceful. Wolf is very protective of the people he loves. Their relationship with each other works so well. They recognize each other's strengths and play off of that, even when they are apart.

The Spy with the Red Balloon felt, at times like a prequel. I don't want to say too much so that I don't spoil anything, but it sets up a lot of what we see in The Girl with ...more

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Aug 15, 2018 Julie rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2018-debuts, pub-aw, queer-af, religious-diversity, arc, bea18, on-my-shelf, signed, time-travel, favorites

This was a bit of a slow start for me, but I loved Wolfe and Ilse from page 1. As it went on, it became more and more addicting and I was desperate to get to each chapter and make sure everyone was okay. Also this was SO queer, which was wonderful.

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Oct 16, 2018 Sinead (Huntress of Diverse Books) rated it it was amazing

I received a copy of The Spy with the Red Balloon from Netgalley. I had heard a lot of good things about the first book in this companion series The Girl with the Red Balloon, which I have unfortunately not had the time to read yet. They are both historical fiction novels set at the time of World War II, that have magic in it, and Jewish main characters.

This book is #ownvoices for Jewish representation.

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Oct 10, 2018 Shannon (It Starts At Midnight) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2018, must-read-grabby-hands, october-2018, own-physical, read-for-review

You can find the full review and all the fancy and/or randomness that accompanies it at It Starts at Midnight

4.5*

Wow, this book is good. It's a companion to The Girl with the Red Balloon , and it's absolutely just as strong as its predecessor. Which is a hard feat, because I loved its predecessor, so. The only minor qualm I had was that a few things were a bit predictable- but honestly, it didn't really dampen the impact of the story, so whatever. So let's go ahead and talk about the stuff I ...more

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Aug 08, 2018 Other Rachel rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, urban-fantasy, time-to-cry, ownvoices, magic-users, lgbta, laughter, horror, favorites, diversity

"Get in, losers," she called out. "We're blowing up Nazis."

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In a companion story to The Girl with the Red Balloon, the stakes are high as America joins the second World War. The government is tracking people with magic abilities, drafting them for the fight. Ilse and Wolf Klein are caught in the middle of practicing and are separated to do their necessary part in ensuring America’s survival. Combative Ilse is sent to lead a group in the Manhattan Project where a spy threatens to spill their se ...more

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May 02, 2018 Bethany (thelittlebookblog) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-own-including-kindle, part-of-a-series, read-in-2018, received-from-netgalley, young-adult

Oh my god. review to come but WOW

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Oct 15, 2018 Carmen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: world-war-ii, young-adult, own

I love this series way too much.

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Aug 26, 2018 Dani rated it it was amazing

Shelves: faves

By far one of THE best books I have ever had the pleasure of reading. It was thrilling, suspenseful, heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once. I won't lie, I was scared as hell the entire way through, but each character and each part of this book have left an imprint on my heart and I am so glad I was able to read it. I can't even imagine the research that went into this book.

I don't even know what else to say. It's a book that, once it's finished, leaves you a little speechless. Thank you for ...more

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May 13, 2017 Mic rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2018s, boy-mains, books-outside-the-us, complex-lady-books, feminism-to-the-max, i-cried, historicals, lgbtq-reads, religion-and-ya, albert-whitman

Katie gave me feelings.

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Oct 03, 2018 Rachel Goldstein rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2018, 4-star, poc-rep, queer-rep-in-kidlit

I was so excited to read this book because I adored The Girl with the Red Balloon; and this prequel is rich in history, magic, troubling grey areas, and beautiful language in the same way. The unique thing that I love most about it is the sibling relationship between Wolf and Ilse--their closeness and their clashes and similarities and perceived inadequacies and deep understanding and constant sniping. It's a relationship that gets you invested right away. And as comforting and familiar as it in I was so excited to read this book because I adored The Girl with the Red Balloon; and this prequel is rich in history, magic, troubling grey areas, and beautiful language in the same way. The unique thing that I love most about it is the sibling relationship between Wolf and Ilse--their closeness and their clashes and similarities and perceived inadequacies and deep understanding and constant sniping. It's a relationship that gets you invested right away. And as comforting and familiar as it initially is, it has to evolve in difficult ways as they are separated for the first time in their lives and have to pursue their own storylines, their own relationships. Some of the ways they each change during the war are heartbreaking. And, knowing what happens in The Girl with the Red Balloon, you can see how the effects of their changing will ripple outward, and how they might make mistakes they wouldn't have before. But their relationship doesn't *weaken*, and that ends up feeling like reason for hope.

Their other relationships are compelling in and of themselves, too. I'm particularly attached to Stella, the delightfully dry and practical genius who is also the lone black woman in the group of magic-users assembled around Ilse (and I appreciate that the other women's respect for and friendship with her doesn't get anyone a free pass on allyship); Lily, the MI6 operative leading Wolf's mission, who is a badass and hasn't had to have all her femininity and softer feelings stripped away to make her into one; and Max, Wolf's lifelong best friend with the potential to be something besides a friend. I would have liked for Max to be developed more, actually, as his own person; but it was nice to eventually get to see him from Ilse's POV, and be reminded that he exists outside of Wolf's perception in ways Wolf doesn't even think about.

The first-person narration manages to convey the adolescence and...*siblingness* of the characters while also feeling oddly literary; I like that about Locke's style. This book definitely feels of a piece with The Girl with the Red Balloon. There are a couple deliberately anachronistic lines, but they're so damn satisfying that I can't bring myself to mind. Most of them have to do with punching Nazis.

Some of the morality in the book is a bit more uneasy than Nazi-punching, which is to be expected of a story dealing with the Manhattan Project. On that front, the book is definitely aware of the moral dilemmas. It's even aware of the issues with being too black-and-white about anything--not that certain things aren't irrefutably wrong, but that rigidity and idealism can both cause problems down the line. Like Girl with the Red Balloon, though, it chooses to be less aware of certain things. Sometimes it's sticking to the constraints of the time period, as with the few mentions of Israel--the characters in the midst of the Holocaust are thinking of safety, not the horrifying situation Israel will eventually become, but the latter is always at the edges of my mind. Sometimes it just feels like something's been forgotten, as when the leader of the nascent balloonmakers says he hopes their rescue services will never be needed in America, which has in fact been rounding up its own citizens in concentration camps on the basis of ethnicity for a year by the time the book starts. These moments made me uncomfortable, but I also don't feel like I can blame the characters for having their all their focus taken up by the Holocaust.

I'm also rather emotional about how this book deals with its characters' Judaism, since it's central to the Jewish characters' identities and to the setting itself but each of them has a different relationship to it, and it's only one part of some very complicated patchworks...I have trouble articulating my emotions since I'm still working on articulating my own relationship with Judaism, but I really, really appreciate that Locke's unapologetically and complexly Jewish books exist.

My final note is about the queer rep--it's here, and it's lovely. Again, it varies between characters and is only part of the patchwork. The dangers of queerness during the 1940s are present, and some characters may be held back by that while others fail to really understand someone else's fear; they're all working on it, but the focus isn't on fear or tragedy but on kids figuring out their feelings and their identities. And I'm especially gratified by the asexual rep we get in Wolf.

Overall: The Spy with the Red Balloon is beautiful and gripping (I read it faster than anything I've read in the last several months) and you should read it! Probably after The Girl with the Red Balloon, for the full effect of the worldbuilding. ...more

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Oct 12, 2018 Ben Truong rated it really liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, lgbt, magical-realism, science-fiction, young-adult

The Spy with the Red Balloon is the second book in The Balloonmakers series and written by Katherine Locke. It is centers on sixteen year-old Ilse Klein and her older brother, Wolf Klein, two Jewish, German-American youths living in 1943. They have a closely guarded secret: there is magic in their blood – literally. When they write scientific equations with their blood – magical things can happen.

When Isle Klein accidentally sets fire to a kite using her magic and it is witnessed by a government The Spy with the Red Balloon is the second book in The Balloonmakers series and written by Katherine Locke. It is centers on sixteen year-old Ilse Klein and her older brother, Wolf Klein, two Jewish, German-American youths living in 1943. They have a closely guarded secret: there is magic in their blood – literally. When they write scientific equations with their blood – magical things can happen.

When Isle Klein accidentally sets fire to a kite using her magic and it is witnessed by a government agent, they are blackmailed into helping America win the Second World War. Wolf Klein is sent into Germany to spy and destroy Germany nuclear labs to slow down or halt their nuclear progression, while Ilse is sent to a top-secret engineering facility in Tennessee with three other magic-users to manifest a nuclear bomb.

However, complexities arise when some important documents go missing and Ilse Klein is blamed for treason. The accusation against Ilse effect Wolf, whose Jewish identity makes him even more vulnerable – especially when he is shot down by the enemy and needs his sister's help to find an appropriate magic spell to get him out.

I rather liked the fact that the four member team working on the atomic bomb project were all women. Of the four people in Ilse Klein's group, Stella, who is black, is treated differently from the rest, though she is the smartest member of the team. Locke managed to explore the similarities between Stella and Ilse Klein with their shared discrimination, but how very different they are being discriminated against. Regardless, there is a connection between them – it is a shame that it is discrimination.

Ilse Klein is also surprised to find herself attracted to another teammate, Polly, and has to do work through her sexual revelation. Furthermore, the entire magical team is also forced to grapple with the ethics of using their intellectual and magical gifts in service of delivering a weapon of mass destruction. It does not help much that there is a leak in within their group and they must be weary of each other.

Wolf Klein's challenges are just as daunting. He is in love with his best friend, Max, when the two end up on the same mission. He is torn between protecting Max and completing the mission goals. He and his team face decisions of life and death when it comes to the Nazi soldiers they encounter in Germany, as well as with civilian workers at the sites they are supposed to bomb.

The Spy with the Red Balloon was written extremely well. Locke expertly blends historical fiction, action, suspense, and magical realism, the mad such an intricate and rich narrative. It switches between the sibling's perspectives, exploring a multitude of emotional and moral issues, including racism and LGBTQ equality. However, having teenagers – even magical and genius ones – helping with the war effort in significant world changing manner was not explored as much and such it was quite difficult to suspend the disbelief a tad.

All in all, The Spy with the Red Balloon was wonderfully written. It is an enthralling story, which exposes the cruelties inflicted on minority populations under authoritarian regimes and questions the use of weapons of mass destruction, but counterbalances such pain with magic, friendship, and even love. ...more

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Oct 07, 2018 Bree Garcia rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult

There are some books that, once you finish reading them, you know for a fact that you're going to read it again. And soon. Both books in the Balloonmakers series are like that. The Girl with the Red Balloon was sweet and smart, and it made my heart ache during my reading and especially after. The Spy with the Red Balloon is no different. I thought I would be upset that Katherine Locke didn't continue the story of Ellie and Kai, but once I met Ilse and Wolf, I knew I wouldn't be upset for long.

Il There are some books that, once you finish reading them, you know for a fact that you're going to read it again. And soon. Both books in the Balloonmakers series are like that. The Girl with the Red Balloon was sweet and smart, and it made my heart ache during my reading and especially after. The Spy with the Red Balloon is no different. I thought I would be upset that Katherine Locke didn't continue the story of Ellie and Kai, but once I met Ilse and Wolf, I knew I wouldn't be upset for long.

Ilse is a genius, a girl who lives and breathes science and magic. Wolf, her brother, is smart, but he knows he'll never understand as much as Ilse does. He only knows that their blood can perform magical feats, and he understands that the war is closer than he thought. When the siblings are recruited for a secret mission involving Hitler and a nuclear bomb, they know that nothing will ever be the same between them. Ilse is whisked off to the picturesque hills of Tennessee while her brother is shipping off to Germany, right in the middle of the danger. The two must fight against time, racism, and a spy determined to get their way.

Let's be honest: right now, we definitely need a heroine like Ilse. She's strong, brave, smart, and willing to stand up to those who try to come between her and her principles. She only wants a better world to live in, one where people can be themselves and be happy. She's idealist in that way, but she understands that this world is not kind to people like her - Jewish, queer - but she knows enough to want to change that.

Then there's Wolf. Sweet, sensitive Wolf. This war hasn't only been waged against his people, but it's also torn his best friend Max from him. Once overseas, he's sure of two things: he wants to stop Hitler and he wants to make it back home so he and Max can be together.Along the way, he learns about heartbreak and betrayal, and he sees exactly what is worth fighting for.

In a nutshell: these two siblings are badass.

Katherine Locke writes in such a way that makes me yearn for the characters to be happy while being blindingly angry at the atrocities this world has offered innocent people. She blends reality and fantasy so seamlessly that sometimes I'm like, well, yeah, of course this is how it happened, with magic balloons. She's detailed and thorough, bringing the world alive around you. And the way she writes the characters! Ilse and Wolf are just two people on paper, but I would die for them. I want to wrap them in the softest blankets and tell them I'm sorry for what the world has done to them. I'm not usually like this with characters, but these two are adorable and have been through far too much for their young ages. ...more

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Nov 01, 2018 JoLee rated it liked it

Shelves: 2018, e-book, intellectual-recreation, review-copy, world-war-ii, young-adult, lgbtq

Featured in World War II Wednesday on Intellectual Recreation.

Last year I read Katherine Locke's The Girl With the Red Balloon, and it made me really curious to learn more about the magical balloonists of the past. Well, I got my wish. In The Spy with the Red Balloon, Ms. Locke takes us back about 45 years to World War II.

The story stars siblings Ilse and Wolf. They are recruited to help the war effort with their magic. Wolf is sent overseas as a spy, and Ilse become part of the Manhattan p ...more

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Jul 31, 2018 Chloe rated it really liked it

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The Spy With the Red Balloon is a companion novel to The Girl With the Red Balloon, but they can be read completely separately! I really enjoyed Girl, it had such a haunting tone to it, so I was excited to see what Spy would hold!

I almost stopped reading a handful of times. It takes a bit to get acclimated with the world and the science/magic can get very confusing very fast. I kinda just disconnected from it and stopped trying to make sense of it all and that helped!

After a bit, t *Spoiler free*

The Spy With the Red Balloon is a companion novel to The Girl With the Red Balloon, but they can be read completely separately! I really enjoyed Girl, it had such a haunting tone to it, so I was excited to see what Spy would hold!

I almost stopped reading a handful of times. It takes a bit to get acclimated with the world and the science/magic can get very confusing very fast. I kinda just disconnected from it and stopped trying to make sense of it all and that helped!

After a bit, things start to pick up and the story really gets going. You have all the points to need and ZOOM! we're off. It took me awhile to get warmed up to Isle. I just had a hard time connecting with her and I only found myself really invested in her story towards the end. I didn't have that problem with Wolf. I was hooked into his POV right from the start.

This book does take place during WWII and there is a lot of heavy stuff happening, but this book is just... more than that. There was plenty of queer characters and punching Nazis to go around. I loved it.

One of my favorite things would have to be a plot twist. It is so masterfully done that it's such a complete shock. I loved it. You are lulled into a false sense 'oh, duh I know what this is' and then you are completely thrown off guard by what actually happens. It was brilliant.

I'm not sure how I feel about Isle's romance arc. She is bi and she does have a crush on a girl and I loved it! It just felt a little rushed and I don't feel I got enough interaction between the two characters to feel completely invested in their feelings. But, there I feel like there is a story off the page happening and that is good for me.

It loved seeing the connections to Girl. It was so fun seeing how this book ties into that one! They are more like Easter eggs, so if you haven't read Girl it's no big deal. You will understand everything that is going on!

I thoroughly enjoyed Spy. It was so awesome to see this book twist together and to get to know these characters! ...more

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Sep 23, 2018 Halli Gomez rated it it was amazing

THE SPY WITH THE RED BALLOON is the second book, but it occurs earlier than the first, a nice twist. This time we are in the 1940’s fighting World War II

Katherine Locke takes us to World War II with the Klein siblings, Ilse and Wolf. We’re fortunate to be a part of this story from different locations and points of view. These compelling stories are beautifully woven together. Cleverly created concepts of magic and science bring us into Ilse and Wolf’s world and their involuntary recruitment to t ...more

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Oct 15, 2018 Jessie rated it it was amazing

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I loved almost all of the characters here. Ilse is so young and quick and earnest. Wolf is more contained, but he feels just as strongly, just as stubborn, and more intelligent than he gives himself credit for. He loves so quickly. Both of them grow over the course of just a few months here, and I really appreciated that Ilse's journey shows that growth doesn't always look like increased certainty. Sometimes we need to be more uncertain first.

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Oct 23, 2018 Aly rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, historical-fiction, young-adult

3/5 stars

Historical fiction for me is tricky, but reading this right after a book I loved (also historical fiction) I just didn't find myself interested. I got bored A LOT, so much that I felt lile stopping at points or skimming pages. There were times where I was actually really interested, but they werw few and far between. Beginning was unbearably slow where I nearly DNFd it 70 pages in. The ending was nice and tied it to a nice bow, leaving it open for interpretation. But yeah, this definite ...more

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Apr 08, 2018 Jenni Frencham rated it liked it

Shelves: historical-fiction, young-adult

Locke, Katherine. The Spy with the Red Balloon. Albert Whitman & Company, 2018.

Ilse and Wolf can work magic with their blood, but their experiments are put on hold by the second world war. Ilse is assisting the Americans in building a bomb, while Wolf is sent behind German lines to sabotage German plans for the same type of weapon. Will they be able to keep each other alive and also maintain their secrets?

This book has some great character development and world building and is a perfect book ...more

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Oct 14, 2018 Luna rated it really liked it

Wolf and Max were <3 <3 and worth an extra star on their own. Ilse grew on me after a few chapters. At first, I found her very analytical way of relating to things difficult to connect with, but I really admired her bravery+strength. There were a few definite "punch you in the feels" chapters with this one.

I ultimately enjoyed this a lot, despite a slow start and a lot of predictable elements. More of a 3.5, but I like to round up. As with the first book, I felt the historical research / ...more

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Jul 22, 2018 Seawood rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2018-book-challenge, kindle, arc-review-copy, fiction, historical-fiction, young-adult

I received a free ebook from Netgalley. This does not affect my review.
I like the premise of this story, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work unless you've read the first book. It assumes too much prior knowledge - there's no explanation of where the magic comes from or who can wield it, which I presume is covered in the first book. I also found other aspects difficult to suspend belief for - putting a 16yo in charge of a critical team seems unlikely, somehow. It's a real shame, because wit ...more

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Katherine Locke lives and writes in a small town outside Philadelphia, where she’s ruled by her feline overlords and her addiction to chai lattes. She writes about that which she cannot do: ballet, magic, and time travel. She secretly believes all stories are fairytales in disguise. Her YA debut, THE GIRL WITH THE RED BALLOON, arrives September 2017 from Albert Whitman & Comapny.