Beneath the Darkest Sky

When I started this novel, I didn't realize that it was a sequel. This led to a bit of confusion on my part but that soon subsided. I know from experience how difficult it is to write a high-quality publishable novel, so I hate having to write "bad" reviews. I'll start with the negative aspects of my......more

This is the second novel by Jason Overstreet called Beneath the Darkest Sky and it is amazing! Overstreet’s last novel was an exploration into an unspoken part of African American history from the standpoint of America’s first CIA operative. Overstreet continues this prolific storytelling using the......more

My number 1 pet peeve is alternating timelines. Why do this? I started off really liking this book as I liked the setting and the characters (Americans in Stalinist Soviet Russia). I grudgingly read the alternate (4 years earlier) timeline in the next chapter just so that I could get back to the exci......more

An interesting, action filled read. The protagonist is a bit hard to swallow: African American who is an engineer, taught engineering at a university of France, former FBI agent, firmer spy, speaks French, German, Italian, and Spanish, learned Haitian Creole seeming overnight, and masters Russian in......more

If this book wasn't so sad, I would give it 4 stars. Imagine moving to Russia to escape racism and alienation in America to being kidnapped and subjected to unimaginable horrors in prison camps. Paul Robeson makes an appearance as an American who embraces communism. Prescott Sweet was Sidney Temple......more