Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke

"Anne Blankman does tension so well. This book put me through it. At one point my muscles were shaking and I had to put my phone down. I didn't see how this book could live up to the tension of the last book, with the MC living literally among Hitler and his followers. But it turns out, living in a place where the man who wants you dead has full direct control of the cops and also you're poking in his affairs--Yeah, haha, plenty of oppurtunity. <br/><br/>I'm kind of glad we were a little bit distanced from Hitler this book, simply because it's unnerving to have Hitler as a character, frankly. I'm glad we explored a bit that Gretchen's father wasn't a good man, either. The fact that Gretchen was totally alienated from everybody in Germany made things interesting, because the tentative encounters she had with characters from her past and new ones honestly are what made this worth it for me. Still, change is sad, isn't it? I miss the days of Munich and living among the Nazis, as silly as that sounds. I think grief and feelings of alienation were portrayed really well here. *I* felt it. I need to rest now. And also to train. The amount of running the characters did in this book proves I would've died somewhere in the last one."