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Recommended SD. Recommended HD. Recommended UHD. Recommended Cam. DOminika ist ein "Sparrow", ausgebildet zur verfuhrerischen und todlichen Falle. EIn gefahrliches Doppelspiel beginnt Red Sparrow, a trilogy series written by Jason Matthews, immerses us in a world where nothing is safe, nothing is reliable, and nothing is what it seems. The author takes the reader through this story on a journey in which we can witness the experiences of two agents whose origins and even agencies are different who fall into a spiral of passion and desire despite the danger of trusting each other.

Red Sparrow has been highly acclaimed not only for being written by a true spy, but also for its great plot and structure, as even the books in this trilogy have been New York Times bestsellers.

Thanks to its excellent start, development, and conclusion, Red Sparrow is a great story that makes us want to know what will happen next, as everything is surprising and unexpected. Do you want to apply the major lessons to your daily life? The goal of this workbook is to help even the newest readers apply what may be the most critical lessons found in Workbook for Red Sparrow: A Novel by Jason Matthews.

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Get your copy now and take out a pencil, pen, or whatever digital technology to jot down, implement, and make solid changes happen. And don't forget to have fun - that'll a. I cannot wait to sink my teeth into the next novel, hoping that the development is as exciting as what Matthews developed here.

I can see why there was so much hype Matthews knows his stuff and has the literary awards to show for it. Kudos, Mr. Matthews, for a stellar debut novel. This series could really have some serious potential to win over many who have not yet developed a love for high-caliber spy novels.

View all 18 comments. I very nearly despaired of finishing this book a couple of times. In one review they compared this book to John Le Carre, I don't think so! So slow, so boring, so full of words that said almost nothing. Sometimes you get a book very rich in words which tells a rich story, this was not the case, it gave me the impression of the author's infatuation with his capacity to link words in sentences, then in paragraphs, pages, chapters and so on.

An I very nearly despaired of finishing this book a couple of times. And the russian! Words in russian in every page, all the time, for everything, so exhausting. The heroine is introduced as being fluent in various languages, one of them english, yet she always had to resort to russian to say a specific word or phrase, so not so fluent I guess.

So the author speaks russian then, and wanted to give us some ambiance, not for me you didn't. The story is common, there is absolutely nothing to make it stand out from any other glamourous spy story, far fetched, slow, repetitive, boring, wordy Jul 09, Trudi rated it really liked it Recommended to Trudi by: Kemper. Shelves: crime-mystery , , rusa-reads , spies-like-us , to-russia-with-love. Think the Cold War is over? Think again. I'd always had somewhere in me I mean, really, who doesn't?

It's one of the greatest stories ever told after all -- the rise and fall of a mighty and murderous political and geographic monolith that aggressively absorbed many nations and languages and religions into its insatiable machinery in a quest for ultimate global supremacy. A nerve-wracking Cold War entrenchment would prove a constant counter-balancing act with the United States to see which would emerge the most super of two superpowers -- while the rest of us could do nothing but watch with bated breath to see whether one or both would destroy the world in a conflagration of nuclear annihilation.

Good times. While it seems like those old Cold War threats and anxieties are in the past, lost to the annals of history and diminished by Soviet collapse, I would venture that there remain a fair number of Russian politicians who think otherwise.

Dig a little deeper into Putin's presidency and you will find a shocking or perhaps not that shocking at all amount of old-school Soviet corruption and megalomania. And that's what gives Red Sparrow its sense of urgency and authenticity. It's happening. In point of fact, it never stopped. Names might have changed, there might be a veneer of civility and legality over the top of it all to shine it up for a new century, but in a lot of important ways it's the same shit different day. Author Jason Matthews isn't writing out of his ass either.

He's been in the spy game for over three decades and served in multiple overseas locations performing clandestine acts and participating in recruitment operations. Reading about spy games as they are unfolding in this century is definitely thrilling, though at times because it requires so much description it's easy to become mired in the details.

Many times while reading the action, I longed to be watching it instead. Spy games are extremely visual by their very nature -- so I did feel that some of the book's potency and terror was lost in the amount of dense prose required to put the reader in that place. I couldn't help think about FX's brilliant spy drama The Americans and how it handles drops and communiques, late-night rides, expedient kills and ruthlessly efficient body disposal all the more impressive since it's done using 80s technology and employing an array of epic wigs.

After three superb seasons I'm truly addicted, especially to the rich emotional depth that simmers beneath its layers of intrigue and counterintelligence techniques. So yeah, watching this stuff tends to be way more awesome than reading about it.

The author overcomes this handicap by introducing a great cast of characters to act as our portal into the twisty, exciting narrative, giving us people to care and worry about. The stakes are high in these cat and mouse games that aren't games at all of course. One wrong move and you're dead, your body likely never to be found. I will definitely read the second book in this series, if only to tide me over until The Americans return in January.

Two quick nit-picky thoughts: 1 What the hell is up with all the recipes appearing at the end of every single chapter? That became a bit annoying only because I really didn't see the purpose, and some of them made me hungry, which would make me stop reading in order to run for the refrigerator. View all 9 comments. Aug 30, Tim rated it liked it. The first third of this trilogy has a few good plots and assorted misses.

The end of this first trill is wanting Jul 13, Darren rated it did not like it. I don't care if the plot eventually improved; the writing is terrible. For one, there is a lot of needless description. He describes plateware and names the fancy cologne a character is wearing.

Who cares? Don't waste my time with the research you did on trivial nonsense. He even describes an airport terminal as containing shops and restaurants. Why waste words on describing an airport? We all know what they look like. I don't need to be told they have shops. Second, he's using omniscient POV, which is not a good choice for a first-time author. It's a POV that requires restraint or else the reader will get whiplash from jumping around in different characters' heads.

And that's exactly what the reader gets--sometimes he jumps back and forth between two characters' POVs on the same page. There is also a lot of needless description of cuisine--probably so he can include a recipe at the end of each chapter.

No one cares. Stop forcing every chapter to have a food scene. Perhaps I've been spoiled by reading good writers and avoiding genre fiction, but if this is what passes for acceptable craft in genre fiction, then count me out of genre books. The author needed a professional writer to collaborate with--someone who could take his plot ideas and tell the story in a compelling, economical way.

View all 7 comments. Like the coldest, most diligent of intelligence officers, I have been patiently sitting on the secrets of this book for nearly 6 months now. It reminded me of the cold-war espionage thrillers I read growing up, and I drafted my review right away, while the source material was still fresh in my brain, safe from any Like the coldest, most diligent of intelligence officers, I have been patiently sitting on the secrets of this book for nearly 6 months now.

It reminded me of the cold-war espionage thrillers I read growing up, and I drafted my review right away, while the source material was still fresh in my brain, safe from any sort of foreign government tampering. Check back next Tuesday for that! With all that having been said, I can safely say that Red Sparrow is worth the wait. If you find yourself missing the cloak-and-dagger world of the Cold War - somewhere between the time when spy thrillers stopped being all about the gadgets and started being all about gritty, action-packed reboots - then this is a book you will certainly appreciate.

This is a contemporary thriller, set in Putin's Russia, and it contains some clever nods to the classic spycraft elements, but it reads like it could have come direct from Gorbachev's Soviet Union It's an intelligent, slow-moving tale at least in the early chapters , but no less compelling for it. Jason Matthews quickly establishes the players, the stage, and the stakes, drawing us in and holding us close throughout.

Nathaniel Nate is a great character, a charismatic lead who manages to retain the sense of being familiar and down-to-earth, while also demonstrating a propensity for quick action and bold heroics. He's both likable and admirable, which is a difficult mix to pull off, especially in this kind of a story.

At the same time, Dominika comes across as an authentic, if seductively dangerous, woman, placed in an awkward situation. A graduate of the Sparrow School of sexual espionage, she could easily have fallen into the disposable Bond-girl mold, but she not only holds her own, she proves herself worthy of sharing the lead.

What I really appreciated about the story was the amount of deceit, double-dealing, and treacherous twists that permeate the text. You're never quite sure who you can trust or what their ultimate motives are, and that's as it should be. As soon as your readers find themselves becoming familiar with the characters, and feeling secure in their presence, then you've failed the genre. Matthews deftly avoids that pitfall, making us want to be believe Nate, and compelling us to want to trust in Dominika, but he never makes any promises.

They're never cheap twists, and you never feel as if you've been blindsided, but it's worth remembering that red herrings are part and parcel of the genre. While this is not an action-packed novel, screaming for a big-budget, blockbuster treatment, it contains more than its fair share of sex, violence, and dramatic tension. The stakes are high, and the story never allows us to lose sight of that.

Political diplomacy aside, we're talking about warring forces here, enemy combatants who may operate in the shadows, but who fill those shadows with torture, murder, and sexual exploitation. It's a frightening, ugly world in which to operate, full of necessary evils and uncomfortable decisions. Matthew maintains that tension right to the very last page, keeping the reader intrigued, almost to the point of paranoia. To say much more than that would be to get into spoiler territory, and I'm far too aware of my own morality to risk crossing the wrong people.

However, I will add this - the assassination in the final pages makes for a fitting end, but it also provides ample motive and opportunity for a Red Sparrow sequel. To be honest, I'd like to see Matthew simply leave it at that, since the end works so beautifully, but I wouldn't be too disappointed were he to pick up the threads for a sequel. As a final note, while I suspect the recipes that follow each chapters are carefully crafted secret messages to Nate's bosses, I'm also reasonably sure they're not meant to poison the enemy, and are likely as tasty as they are intriguing.

View 1 comment. Jan 25, Jennifer rated it really liked it Shelves: ass-kicking-chicks , listened-to-audiobook , book-to-screen , read , thriller , political-military-conspiracy. She loved and was loved in return. At first, I almost didn't finish this book. Like I said, I don't typically read this genre and I didn't find myself easily engaged in the writing style.

It felt very dry third-person. However, "Her name was Dominika Egorova. However, the manipulation, level of action, surprising amount of drama, food there are recipes!! Jennifer Lawrence will be kickass in the role of Dominika and I'm excited to see how this plays out on the screen. We have lots to do. Get to work, for Christ's sake.

Stop mooning around. It's like a Jane Austen novel. View all 4 comments. By now I would've though I've seen pretty much everything that is there to haunt a hapless reader: unthrilling thrillers, books written badly enough to read them aloud for dare, mangled histories and fiction gone bonkers.

But nope, that's not all. Here goes a new one: a boooring spy novel. DNFing so far. I'll be back at some later date! Jun 06, Meredith rated it it was amazing. Captivating spy novel with some romance mixed in. I highly recommend. I can't wait to read the Palace of Treason. Mar 04, kartik narayanan rated it liked it. The best thing is its sheer authenticity and 'grounded-ness' of the day to day clandestine operations similar to the way the Pike Logan books feel authentic in their action due to Brad Thor's background.

While I am no spy or am I? I found the demonisation of the Russians and Putin to be quite puerile and a bit hypocritical. The villains follow the usual tropes - skilled manipulator, sadistic killer etc. Additionally, the character of Natasha Romanoff Dominika is quite strong and tends to stick in your mind, more-so than other characters.

Don't believe all the denials though- Red Sparrow is best described as a mature version of the Black Widow. Jun 12, Darwin8u rated it liked it Shelves: The next generation of spy-turned-spy novelist is here. While not close to being a great espionage novel using recipes to separate the chapters seems a little overcooked and trite , the Red Sparrow shows a lot of pote The next generation of spy-turned-spy novelist is here.

While not close to being a great espionage novel using recipes to separate the chapters seems a little overcooked and trite , the Red Sparrow shows a lot of potential for a debut novel. When the novel gets away from acrobatic sex and ethnic food and instead sticks with spy craft, agent development, mole detection, etc.

It isn't exactly spy literature, but it is a fun and diversionary summer read that mixes a low brow Bond sexy vixens and almost absurdly wicked villains with more high brow Smiley complexity of motivations and opacity of belief. This mixture could have almost sunk the novel, but Matthews nearly pulls it off.

Mar 06, Megan Johnson rated it it was ok Shelves: mystery-thriller-suspense. This is a tough one - on the one hand I actually really did enjoy the story, but on the other hand it was kind of a tough one to get through. When it comes to illicit affairs, strategizing on who can screw the other harder, and that flavor of crazy drama - I am THERE for it.

But to be totally candid with you, I feel like that drama was there in this book but it was taken away from by endless "intelligence" talk. I know this is a story of espionage and how the agencies go about their business, an This is a tough one - on the one hand I actually really did enjoy the story, but on the other hand it was kind of a tough one to get through.

I know this is a story of espionage and how the agencies go about their business, and on the surface it probably does that very well. But for the average reader that cared more about the drama than the inner workings of government intelligence, it just didn't resonate with me. Should you buy it? I'm gonna have to go with probably not on this one unless you're looking to read it before seeing the movie or you're really, really into how government spying works.

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