An Extraordinary Union (The Loyal League, #1) in The Toast

Jul 30, 2017 Meghan rated it really liked it

Shelves: romance, historical, bipoc-authors

Women spies of the Civil War

Elle Burns is a spy for the Union in the Civil War. She is willing to leave her life in Massachusetts to go undercover and pretend to be a mute slave in the South, and to use her perfect memory to capture and transmit information as a Pinkerton detective. Malcolm McCall is also a Pinkerton detective pretending to be a Confederate soldier. This is a romance that doesn't sweep away injustice and anger, and confronts the difficulty of forming a relationship with someone ...more

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Jun 19, 2017 Heather rated it really liked it

I've read a couple of Alyssa Cole's novellas and liked them well enough, though I don't think novellas give enough space for developing a proper romance. I really enjoyed An Extraordinary Union. Cole treads very fraught waters but manages to create a believable, hopeful romance in the midst of a very dangerous setting. I felt there were some pacing issues and the later chapters tended a bit more towards melodrama than my taste, but the heroine and hero were interesting, well-drawn characters and ...more

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Jul 23, 2017 Jessica rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance, spy, 19th-century, poc-heroine, owned, historical, civil-war

HEART EYES ALL OVER THIS ONE

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May 06, 2017 Amanda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: women-authors, poc-authors, historical-fiction, fiction, library, romance, black-authors

I loved this! Elle is such a strong, unusual heroine and I could easily have read a whole other book about her (hopefully she shows up in any more books in this series). I don't usually go too much for the mystery/suspense/spy genre of romance, but I've been meaning to read Alyssa Cole forever and this book had gotten such good reviews, I went for it, and I'm so glad I did! ...more

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