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The Killing Code
by Ellie Marney
wooo I finally found a book that got me out of my reading slump
There r many things I love about the book:
1. The trope where a bunch of school girls solve a huge serial murder case that no one else can solve, like come on I love that sm
2. The fact that the main character holds secrets of her own (WHICH SHE CAN LITERALLY BE KILLED FOR) while she's trying to uncover the murderer - it makes the book sm more interesting cause the reader's constantly thinking about what's going to happen to her. Her secret's revealed in the first couple of pages which really keeps the reader hooked
3. The history. Usually history bores me sm but I honestly never knew anything about the American codebreaking girls during the war and like the feminism in the book oml. The book contains quotes from real codebreakers at the time and yeah it's nice to hear their voices and ahh it's so interesting. Also, the book brought attention to the segregated codebreaking units and again that's something I never knew about. I'm really glad that the character Violet, a black maid, was one of the main characters as she really showed the prejudice black people experienced at that time and how different their lives were to white people. It's still crazy to me that all that prejudice happened less than a hundred years ago like wtaf
4. THE ROMANCE OML like damn I've never read a mystery book with actual romance but oml and it's literally gay too like what I did not expect that when I decided to read this mystery book
5. The characters and their friendship
Ok now moving on to things that weren't that good:
1. I'm ngl the book wasn't written that well. I don't really mind cause overall it was still a good book but yeah some of the descriptions were too informal and boring so I skim-read those parts
2. I like the final revelation at the end but it would have been nicer if the book went into more detail about the other suspects. Because only their names were revealed and some basic description and that made it clear that they weren't the murderers.
3. I like the ending but it's ambiguous about why the characters are going there so I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it
That's all I'm gonna end the review with a quote from the book cause yk I love my quotes:
"I'm starting to get the feeling that wars don't end... That they just change shape. Thin out and infest homes, families..."
That quote just made me think sm like damn ik that's kind of a negative way to end the review but yeah it's interesting.
OK GO READ THE BOOK NOW <3
There r many things I love about the book:
1. The trope where a bunch of school girls solve a huge serial murder case that no one else can solve, like come on I love that sm
2. The fact that the main character holds secrets of her own (WHICH SHE CAN LITERALLY BE KILLED FOR) while she's trying to uncover the murderer - it makes the book sm more interesting cause the reader's constantly thinking about what's going to happen to her. Her secret's revealed in the first couple of pages which really keeps the reader hooked
3. The history. Usually history bores me sm but I honestly never knew anything about the American codebreaking girls during the war and like the feminism in the book oml. The book contains quotes from real codebreakers at the time and yeah it's nice to hear their voices and ahh it's so interesting. Also, the book brought attention to the segregated codebreaking units and again that's something I never knew about. I'm really glad that the character Violet, a black maid, was one of the main characters as she really showed the prejudice black people experienced at that time and how different their lives were to white people. It's still crazy to me that all that prejudice happened less than a hundred years ago like wtaf
4. THE ROMANCE OML like damn I've never read a mystery book with actual romance but oml and it's literally gay too like what I did not expect that when I decided to read this mystery book
5. The characters and their friendship
Ok now moving on to things that weren't that good:
1. I'm ngl the book wasn't written that well. I don't really mind cause overall it was still a good book but yeah some of the descriptions were too informal and boring so I skim-read those parts
2. I like the final revelation at the end but it would have been nicer if the book went into more detail about the other suspects. Because only their names were revealed and some basic description and that made it clear that they weren't the murderers.
3. I like the ending but it's ambiguous about why the characters are going there so I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it
That's all I'm gonna end the review with a quote from the book cause yk I love my quotes:
"I'm starting to get the feeling that wars don't end... That they just change shape. Thin out and infest homes, families..."
That quote just made me think sm like damn ik that's kind of a negative way to end the review but yeah it's interesting.
OK GO READ THE BOOK NOW <3