Waiting on Wednesday: MY NAME IS MILENA ROKVA by T.A. Maclagan

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I’m delighted to be taking part in the Waiting on Wednesday post today to celebrate the upcoming release of T.A. Maclagan’s new book, MY NAME IS MILENA ROKVA, which is book 2 (and the final instalment) in the Alexandra Gastone duology!
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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill from Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases we are eagerly awaiting!
Title: My Name is Milena Rokva (Alexandra Gastone #2)
Author: T.A. Maclagan
Expected Publication Date: July 12, 2016
 

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Blurb:
After seven years living as Alexandra Gastone, Milena Rokva is now free to be her true self, if only she knew who that was or had time to find out. Milena is in a race against time to bring down Perun, the very organization that trained her as a spy. Perun is no longer content to use their network of sleeper agents to protect her homeland and is maneuvered to take control of the world’s energy markets, sending the globe into chaos.

Working with her surrogate grandfather, Albert Gastone, his CIA friend Brad and her old handler, Varos, Milena finds herself embroiled in an epic spy game teamed with friends whose endgames do not necessarily align with her own. The only person Milena can truly trust is herself.

Can Milena take down Perun, protect her fellow cadets and make a life for herself with her boyfriend, Grant, as well as the friends and family she’s come to love as Alexandra Gastone? Buckle in for a wild ride as the Alexandra Gastone duology comes to a close.

About T.A…T.A. Maclagan
T.A. Maclagan is a Kansas girl by birth but now lives in the bush-clad hills of Wellington, New Zealand with her Kiwi husband, son and four pampered cats. With a bachelor’s degree in biology and a Ph.D. in anthropology, she’s studied poison dart frogs in the rainforests of Costa Rica, howler monkeys in Panama and the very exotic and always elusive American farmer. It was as she was writing her ‘just the facts’ dissertation that T.A. felt the call to pursue something more imaginative and discovered a passion for creative writing.
I am sooooo excited for this book to release! Check out my thoughts: 
Having been a huge fan of T.A. Maclagan’s first novel (book 1 in the Alexandra Gastone duology) I was delighted to get my hands on a beta-copy of MY NAME IS MILENA ROKVA, the conclusion to Alexandra/Milena’s story.

And this book definitely lived up to my expectations.

I loved that this book is all about Milena discovering who she really is, after she’s been living a lie for so long. Her questions and the way she approached this felt authentic. Yet, unfortunately, she doesn’t have much time to find out who she really is because Maclagan throws her right into some pretty hefty action.

This book has everything that I loved in the first book: spies, romance, flawed characters, moral dilemmas… it’s all there. But I think I liked this one better. At first, I wasn’t so sure of the ending (mainly because I wanted Milena to end up with the different guy–yeah, there’s sort of a love triangle, but it’s not angsty or anything), but looking back now I can see that the final resolution and pairing is so fitting and it works.

I’d definitely recommend this book to fans of spy thrillers.