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Having read Free by Lea Ypi, a story of the collapse of Communist Albania and its effect on its citizens, I was excited to receive Iron Curtain for review. This is the story of a "red princess", a young woman whose father was vice president of her communist country. Milena grew up with great privilege because of her father and his role in the revolution. It was a privilege that few of her countrymen would ever know. In acting as a translator for an English poet, she falls in love with him and is determined to flee to England to be with him. A series of events allows her to act on her desires and so the story goes. To give any more of a summary would be to spoil the ending.

My struggles with the book included grandiose verbiage by the author as well as inconsequential events in the book which did nothing to further the plot or even character development.

Was the book terrible? No. Was it great? No. Would this reviewer recommend it to others? Sadly, no.