Sarah's Reviews > Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

I feel a little bad giving it 2 stars, because this book isn't that bad, but it also wasn't quite good enough to be 3.

Biggest problems with this book:

1) Lack of narrative focus
2) Way too much time spent on unimportant details (way too many numbers and figures on things I cared nothing about)
3) Too little focus on the people involved, what they were like, and their motivations

Certainly, the author put a lot of research in, but it felt like a high school history report (look at all these facts and figures I dug up while researching this!!!) instead of a coherent book.

This is a story about a spy ring in the midst of the Revolutionary War- it should not be boring. Yet it managed to be boring on more than one occasion. I was also rather frustrated that I came away from it feeling like I'd learned almost nothing about the people involved.