Lion Eyes review

Claire Berlinski is the author of a spy novel called Loose Lips. She lives in Paris and begins exchanging emails with an Iranian man whom she calls the “Lion”. When Claire takes a visit to Istanbul to meet the Lion , she finds herself in the middle of a real-life spy novel, and realizes that not only is the Lion not who she thinks he is, but she isn’t who the Lion thinks she is.



The plot of this book is a little more than confusing at first. In real life, there is an author named Claire Berlinski, and she really did write the 2004 novel Loose Lips. So you could consider Lion Eyes sort of a memoir of another dimension. Now, besides the fact that Lion Eyes was pretty much just a long advertisement for Berlinski’s first novel, Loose Lips, I did enjoy it. The main plot with Claire’s adventures in Istanbul was indeed thrilling, but the ending was kinda blah, and I actually enjoyed the subplot with Sam and Lynne more. Their love story was really sweet, and the ending for them was adorable. Claire’s story didn’t seem to really have an end though, and it kind of left me even more confused then when I started reading the book. I think it does well for a romance/spy novel though, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes those genres.