321 reviews for:

The Killing Code

Ellie Marney

3.83 AVERAGE

adventurous dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was a good mystery, about female code breakers in American during world war II. A series of murders take place and four of the girls get together to apply their code breaking skills to figure out who the murderer is.
I liked this and I don’t have a specific complaint, but I had trouble staying engaged with this one for some reason. Skimmed to the end.

So this was great? I flew through it, it was well written, I was invested in the characters, Ellie Marney left no crumbs. I have been trying to figure out if this was a right book, right time thing or it was really just that good, but at the end of the day, who cares which it is? It's a great read and makes me curious about Marney's other stuff. I did figure out who the killer was early on, but honestly, a minor quibble because there were so many other things I did want to know more about and see how they played out. See? I am even trying to find fault and I can't! Read this one.
adventurous mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
challenging dark hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark hopeful informative reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes