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4.0 out of 5 stars
A Thriller Made Excellent by Descriptions of Russia and Soviet Union,
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This review is from: Vodka Neat: A Faith Zanetti Thriller (Faith Zanetti Thrillers) (Hardcover)
In VODKA NEAT, Faith Zanetti is a 35-year-old English journalist, a foreign correspondent. Her current assignment is to Russia simply because she lived there 16 years ago when it was the Soviet Union so knows the language. She finds as soon as she arrives the second time that she is suspected of a gruesome double murder that occurred the first time.
So Zanetti now needs to find the Russian husband she married all those years ago, when she was 19, and then left behind when she returned to London. He was with her when they discovered the bloody bodies. This novel certainly is a mystery/thriller as Zanetti, drinking a lot and talking tough throughout, unravels this mystery: what really occurred in the Soviet Union, and what is occurring in Russia? But VODKA NEAT is excellent because the mystery/thrills include descriptions of the Soviet Union as it was and Russia as it is and her life as an innocent 19-year-old in one and as a tough 35-year-old in the other. Zanetti's comments are sarcastic and witty. For example, at one point, Zanetti is talking about McDonalds when she was in the Soviet Union. "My friend Adrian always used to steal the napkins, straws, toilet light bulbs, and loo roll. So did everyone in Moscow, so in the end they locked the light bulbs into immovable globes and stopped providing everything else." Another example: "These days a lot of Moscow looks quite beautiful, if a bit inhospitable and imposing. Mayor Luzhkov cleaned it up for a big anniversary, but he didn't clean up any of the bits where foreigh dignitaries weren't going to see. These are the bits where everyone lives." Obviously, the author, Anna Blundy, has been here herself. As a matter of fact, she lived and worked in Russia as a journalist. So when she shows us the Soviet Union and Russia, we really do see them the way a Western journalist would find them. She's sarcastic and witty. And her Faith Zanetti is authentic.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Neat Vodka - Pure Russia,
This review is from: Neat Vodka (Paperback)
This gripping murder story is set in post-Soviet Russia and captures that strange, frightening but exhilarating place brilliantly.
The characters fascinate and the plot is wonderfully unpredictable. The heroine, Faith Zannetti, is more of an anti-heroine but one can't but love her all the same - I just hope she is not about to retire but will return soon. And you'll love the duck shooting from a tank (military tank, that is)scene - entirely realistic, I can assure you.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting Background,
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This review is from: Vodka Neat: A Faith Zanetti Thriller (Faith Zanetti Thrillers) (Hardcover)
What I liked most about this book was the fact that the hero was British and that the setting was in modern-day Russia. I enjoyed experiencing the world and the story from these two different perspectives. But I found the hero not that interesting and not that sympathetic, and the story as a whole felt as if it needed tightening. I wouldn't mind reading more from this author if I felt her more recent novels were tighter.
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