The Blonde by Anna Godberson
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
I actually bought this book YEARS ago and finally took a moment to read it and I am so happy I did! This thrilling story of Marilyn Monroe being a Russian spy and spying on the President while falling in love with him was heart wrenching at times. Of course the author mixed in enough historically accurate information to make the fictional novel seem almost as if it really did happen. I love that Marilyn was more than her beauty in this story by showing how truly intelligent she was as a character. I also loved that a true romance was built between Marilyn and Jack. (Even if her intentions weren’t exactly innocent at first.) I was not so happy with how their relationship ended though. That broke my heart.
The novel follows two characters: Marilyn and an FBI agent Douglass Walls. I liked that we got this twist of seeing an FBI agent trailing Marilyn because of her communist husband but somehow finding this whole secret plot to take down the President by a Russian organization. I just hate that Agent Walls messed up everything Marilyn tried to plan to save her man. Overall I really loved the book. As a Marilyn Monroe fan, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the way Anna Godberson portrayed her.
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