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fell in love with Ms, Ryan's writing through her Charity House series, So even though I'm not a huge WWII historical reader, her name on the book as the author was enough to have me buy it.

Amazing. It was full of intrigue and the desperation of the many cultures of people who were involved in the war.


It kept me riveted through the last page, Excellent story. Wow! I can see why this book won theThe Daphne Du Maurier Award For Excellence In Mystery/Suspense, Inspirational Division.
The intrigue level was exceedingly high for most of the book, I found it very engaging although not at all restful!

Katarina Kerensky is an exiled Russian princess living in Germany.
Horrified at what the Nazi's are doing, she is working for the British, getting them the information they require to help protect Britain and to win against the Germans.
An excellent actress on stage, she also uses those skills to play the very dangerous game of espionage.
That, and also to hide the fact she and her mother have a very dangerous secret,

She trusts no one, Not even God He let her down years ago when her father was killed at the hands of the Russians.


Then she meets Friedrich Reiter, her contact for the next mission she has been assigned, He is the first person to get through her guard, knock her off balance, get her thinking about God and prove himself trustworthy of her secrets and her heart.


Jack Anderson has been working undercover in the SS, is now to meet up with the famous actress.
Hardened by the persona he has had to take on, and the things he has had to do, he can't afford to let this beautiful contact turn his head and trust her with his heart.


As one thing after another goes wrong, Jack and Katia forge an alliance to beat the enemy and find not only a love to last a lifetime, but one also for eternity.


Just one thing to note: like Katia, I was disappointed that her mother, a Christian, engaged herself to a nonbelieving Nazi marine official.
However, in times of great fear, I know preservation of life is what people go with rather than Biblical teaching, and I can understand why that fear lead to the decision she ultimately made.
I am glad that Renee Ryan brought out though that it was fear leading to that decision, and that Elena's daughter questioned her decision.
Although the unequal yoke wasn't mentioned which I would have preferred the fact of a Christian being with a Nazi was mentioned as not being a good thing.


Thanks to the author for a copy of this book which I received through the LIH group here on Goodreads.
No review was required of me, I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED this story!, . . I fell in LOVE with Jack Anderson aka Freidrich Reiter and Katarina Kerensky, . . The STORYLINE, EVERYTHING! DEFINITELY going on my to keep bookshelf, DEFINITELY fast becoming a FAN of Renee Ryan, . . Also, LOVE the BEAUTIFUL cover art!
Some readers, this one included, usually don't read a lot of romance.
They sometimes find the dialogue overwrought with emotion and the situations unbelievable with too much drama, However, sometimes, especially in the case of "Dangerous Allies" by Renee Ryan, those elements are absent from the story and the book actually pleasantly surprises the reader.
This is one of those times,



Continue reading on Examiner, com A review of Dangerous Allies, WWII spies, Nazis, and romance San Francisco Christian fiction Examiner, com sitelink examiner. com/christianfic In Nazi Germany, British agent Jack Anderson risks his life working undercover as an SS officer, And his latest missionto uncover intelligence about a secret Nazi weaponis his most perilous yet, Especially since he'll have to work with Katarina Kerensky, The famous actress is too dangerous to trustand too beautiful to ignore, Desperate to save her mother from the Gestapo, Katia reluctantly agrees to work with the coolly handsome Jack.
But can she trust a man whose sense of honor is tangled in a web of lies In a race against time, Jack and Katia forge an alliance to take down the enemy.
. . and learn whether love can survive in a world gone wrong, Wow I'm not sure what to say about this one, It wasn't bad, just very bittersweet The only thing that stopped me from giving it astar was the constant use of God, Lord and the christianity in the book.
It was so overdone to a point where I had to stop reading and giving myself a bit of rest or else I'd have given up completely.
I understand they were during times of war and their faith was something people hung on to a lot, but it was a bit too extreme.


The moments between Katarina and Jack could have been explored a little more, in my opinion, more deeply.
I felt like the romance was a bit lackluster, the kiss just okay, and I definitely missed a sex scene.


This book ended up leaving more sad than happy for some reason, This book swept me away from the first few pages and I was hooked! There's something about female spies who are good at what they do and unselfish in their motives.
and meet handsome equally dedicated male spies who challenge them, I didn't want this book to end, This book took me a chapter or two to get into but I'm so glad I didn't give up.
One of my new favorites! I loved the excitement and the unique plot of the two spies, It read like an old black and white movie running through my head, Highly recommend Troubled times often inspire intense romance, Each day is an unknown, faith is tested, and what good is present must be grasped with both hands.
In Dangerous Allies, set during WWII Nazi Germany, Renee Ryan has created an inspirational romance that is not only intense but thought provoking.
This fast moving tale of suspense features a tortured alpha hero and a smart, engaging heroine, each with their own secrets to hide.
As these two explore the challenges of being Christians fighting a very present evil as well as their unexpected love for each other, the reader cannot help but alternately hold their breath and cheer them on.
Definitely one for the keeper shelf, One of my favorite opening scenes and opening lines ever, This is a special read from an author who cares about story, Deep in the Third Reich, Katia Kerensky plays a dangerous game, The dispossessed daughter of a murdered Russian prince, Katia came of age in her mother's German homeland, becoming a popular stage actress.
But the princess's most radical role is wrapped up in her deepest secret with a Jewish maternal grandparent, Katia works as a spy for the British to defeat the Nazi agenda and secure her mother's protection.
Jack Anderson is Katia's latest contact an American working for the British in deep cover as one of Himmler's henchmen, the fearsome Friedrich Reiter.
The horrors Jack has experienced in order to maintain his cover have stolen his faith in God and humanity, and working with a beautiful, headstrong, and idealistic German contact does not fit into his plans.
But in order to secure valuable intelligence, Katia and Jack must take the greatest risk of all a leap of faith in each other and the God they both thought had longsince abandoned them.


Dangerous Allies was a nice change of pace for me, a diverting slice of escapist fiction set during my favorite historical time period.
In my experience with category romance, its rare to find Europeanset World War II spy stories, and Ryan has a bit of a flair for crafting characters that feel authentic to the time period, in that they

are highly aware of the horrifying dangers facing them during this time period.
With the bulk of the novel's action taking place over aday time period, Ryan keeps the action moving at a brisk pace and develops a relatively believable romance between her two leads, considering the length constraints of the category romance format.
That said, Jack's near constant selfloathing and Katia's obsessive angst grew rather tedious, There's too much time spent dissecting their emotional hangups, whereas devoting some of the novel's precious word count to developing their rushed relationship would've brought some balance to the storyline.


Ryan crafts an engaging enough historicalthat I'll definitely be on the lookout for future World War IIset titles.
Dangerous Allies hints at an affinity for the time period that makes me hope Ryan gets the chance to write similar tradelength historical romances, where she'd have the luxury of developing her characters, storyline, and sense of time and place, resulting in a richer and lessrushed reading experience.
A quick and diverting read! This is an excellent story set at the beginning of WWII, Renee Ryan has done an admirable job representing what the life of a spy might have been like, the risks they took, and what their mistakes might cost them.
You also sense the cold, steely indifference of Nazi SS officers within her descriptions of their actions and expressions.
Most of it was not predictable at all I found myself wondering which way the story might go several times.
The one thing that did disappoint me was that Ms, Ryan gave a kind of "epilogue" in her letter to the reader that made a sequel seem unlikely, and I would have loved to follow this story much farther and in great detail.
ETA:

After the author surprised me with a nice comment on my review, I decided to plow through to the end anyway to see if my viewpoint would change once I gave the story a full shot.


Unfortunately, my dislike still remained the same, : BUT, I feel one way that would improve the story is to actually make the spy play out his role as the goto henchman for Himmler.
The book comments frequently on how the English/American spy who is pretending to be an evil SS officer is constantly walking a razor edge between doing horrible things and preserving his moral sanity.
But do we ever see him walk that edge No, He snoops around a shipyard for Himmler and gets shot at, And he looks mean at key points, But that's about it. He doesn't murder anyone, he doesn't threaten or manipulate or do anything that would make someone crap their pants.
All of his dark, twisted undercover shenanigans are handwaved into the mist, Additionally, even if I could force myself to believe that he was capable of committing atrocious acts for the sake of his cover, the guy apparently can switch his Nazi facade on and off like a switch.
As soon as he's with the girl, BAM! "Ohh, God will see us through this, go with me to America!"

At the level of infiltration this guy is at, I feel that he has to maintain his facade at a far greater level than he currently has it.
He has to do truly terrible things without flinching, and if you do it enough, I feel that it should bleed into his everyday life as well.
He shouldn't be able to turn it off, Sure, the Russian actress can be his beacon of light and all that, but it should be a fierce struggle with lots of pain and darkness.


Of course, that will never happen, since the word count is way to short, and the publication line is way too fluffy Grated to allow any sort of real darkness to permeate its pages.
YA books deal with sterner stuff with more impact than any Love Inspired book, It's too bad the story premise is a guilty pleasure of mine,


Fantastic fail once again, The concept seemed awesome enough, but what was I thinking This is the Love Inspired line, and a "romance" novel to boot, which somehow always runs handinhand with incompetant writing and the flattest tensionbuilding ever.
Dear author, I'll believe cunning and devious scheming when I see it, not when you pronounce it after every sentence the character says.
And seriously, I don't see how anyone can be a spy when their emotions are constantly flitting across their faces for the other to pick up.
Hasn't anyone heard of pokerface

If you want fabulous BritishNazi doppleganger fun, read E, Phillip Oppenheim's "The Great Impersonation", Sure, the premise stretches believability, but certainly no more than this book, and it handles the realitybending with far more finesse and excitement.
Oppenheim's BritishGerman spy is actually hot and smart, for one thing, Not like "Dangerous Allies"' sad sack of romantic shorthand for an alpha spy hero,

Will not finish! I loved it, but near the end, it dwindled for me, It started out very funny and intriguing, but afterwards, it just flattened out for me a real disappointment.
Nonetheless,good book! Reading Through Europe Saksamaa/

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Ja siis järgneb täpselt sama sisemonoloog teise peategelasega,

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