I liked the story, though I was bored at times (see the next section). Especially since the author did a pretty good job of keeping the anachronisms in the language to a minimum. I really liked watching her struggle to command the English language - that was a small bit of authenticity that was also a bit endearing. Yulia has to push her psychic limits over and over in this book, but she never backs down.
She is smart, she works hard, she never gives up. I also really liked the paranormal aspect of this series - it's not necessarily an original idea, but I like the presence of it, in this time period, with the politics of this situation. I love seeing things from Yulia's mind, the mind of a Russian girl who wants to protect herself, and her family. I don't read too many books set in the 1900s (not a huge fan of the century in general, sorry!), but I really like this series, in terms of the setting (time and place). This book is historical fiction, which is really cool, because it's set in the 1960s, when the Soviet Union and the Iron Curtain and the Red Scare were still super significant things. Yulia must trust and safeguard her mind if she wants to protect and help her loved ones. Nothing is as it seems and no one is who they are. Meanwhile, Yulia wants to protect her mother, but it's not easy when her mother seems to be working with Rostov. Something strange is going on with the scrubbers, and it seems like Rostov is able to control the situation without even being in D.C. She, Valentin, and her father working with a PsyOps team, looking for Rostov's scrubbers (the super-psychics mentioned in the synopsis). In this sequel novel, Yulia is now residing in Washington, D.C. So I was really wary of reading this one, because I had very little context! It wasn't so bad though, reading the sequel pretty much from scratch. I liked Sekret, but I admit, I forgot a lot of what happened in Sekret. This series is pretty interesting - different from what I'm used to reading, but interesting nonetheless.
Ultimately, Yulia must keep control of her own mind to save the people she loves and avoid an international Skandal. And when super-psychics start turning up in the US capitol, it seems that even Rostov is still a threat. Her mother is being targeted by the CIA and the US government is suspicious of Yulia's allegiance. Her father is reckless and aloof, and Valentin is distant and haunted by his past. Life in Washington, D.C., is not the safe haven Yulia hoped for when she risked everything to flee communist Russia. The dramatic sequel to Sekret, this psychic Cold War espionage thriller follows Yulia to Washington, DC, where she fights to discover the truth about her family without losing control of her mind. *** Review posted on The Eater of Books! blog***
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