I found this to be the most enjoyable read of his 3 books so far! Looking forward to the continuing adventures of Dominika Egorova!

Excellent. Wonderful conclusion to the brilliant trilogy. Totally entertaining. I will really miss these characters.

After a disappointing movie on the first book, I was hoping for a comeback with the final saga of the Red Sparrow trilogy. And Jason Matthews did not disappoint. This highly anticipated sequel delivers as expected and more. The usual team of Forsyth, Nate, Gable and Benford is back with an even more vehemence as they attempt to uncover a surreptitiously placed mole holding the power to one day run the CIA.
The Russian hand in deriding CIA's operations is synonymous with present times, yet it is not biased against any of the real world tomfoolery. The depth of the trade-craft is explored from multiple angles, as we also have North Korean and Chinese intelligence enter the scene. The venues are multiple, the visual imagery of Putin's dacha and his holiday home/harem is breathtaking, and the number of recipes at the end of each chapter has grown more diverse. Is Jason Matthews a good chef?
The ending will not be for everyone, but if you look closely, we have already guessed how this can end. There is only way to go for a spy, who is embroiled in such epic proportions of counter intelligence.
Even after being a very open minded reader who is hardly shaken by moving scenes, I was disconcerted with some of the episodes with Nate's torture, Putin's forcing himself on Domi, and the death/s of a few important characters.
I feel like reading this over again because I do not know when and what next series of such class will be delivered by Mr. Matthews

I found the opening of this book slow-going but after that I was really engrossed in the story. As ever, the violence was a little too much to take, and it irritated me that Grace Gao was such a stereotype (an inscrutable Chinese beauty with hidden secrets, ugh). But I enjoyed the series overall and was curious to see how the ending would play out.

No, not that candidate. In spite of making every effort to keep up with today’s headlines (references to the Russian seizure of Crimea, North Korea’s nuclear programme and so on), author Jason Matthews never imagines for a moment that Vladimir Putin could have a hand in choosing an American president. That would be absurd. A CIA director, maybe. But not not even the most vivid imagination among thriller writers would have imagined what we have now.

Matthews’ Red Sparrow trilogy ends with this volume, and has its centre the inexorable rise to power of a CIA agent inside the ranks of the Russian intelligence services. Lest anyone thinks that idea implausible, remember that in its day, the feared Okhrana — the Tsar’s secret intelligence service — managed to plant agents that rose to the very tops of the underground organisation against which it fought. Among those were super-agents like Ievno Azef among the Socialist Revolutionaries, and in the Bolshevik ranks — Roman Malinovsky and Josef Stalin. Matthews’ world is one in which the CIA are all decent chaps (though some are bunglers), and the Russians mostly monsters. There’s even the occasional, casual racism (in particularly, a scene set in Sudan), which does not help. But overall, the trilogy is a good read and maybe, with luck, there’s even another volume in the works.

I read the first novel in this series so intently, relishing in the detailed accounts of spy craft and different cities. But this one I skimmed past parts of obscure details simply eager to see what happened to Nate and Domi. I was rooting for them so this ending made me mad. I suppose it was never going to end any other way but I’m tired of all of the adult spy novels I’ve read ending in heartbreak and death. Bring back the Gallagher Girl school of plot, I say — negative outlook until a last minute HEA.

This was a great finale to the Red Sparrow series. Matthews does a great job of building tension throughout the book and the plot twists never feel overdone or unbelievable. I really fell in love with the characters in this series and it was really rewarding to see them grow throughout.

This series also serves in part as a cookbook. Each episode always involves some character eating a meal, which always sounds delicious, and then the recipe is appended to the end of each chapter. It's kind of an odd thing, but I really enjoyed it, and the recipes are actually pretty great; I've tried a few of them myself and haven't been disappointed yet!

The ending to this book (and thus the series) was an interesting one. I can see why some people would hate it. I didn't necessarily expect the way everything wrapped up, but I also wasn't particularly surprised. I was relatively satisfied and am mostly just bummed out that it's finally over.

I expect I'll be rereading every book in this series again before too long.
4.5/5 stars.