A review by rachelroo13
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn

5.0

It took me longer than usual to get through this one purely because I had to return it to the library in the middle of reading it and it took forever to get it back. Just as much as I enjoyed reading The Alice Network, I loved getting an up close look at the codebreakers who helped end WW2. While it took a minute to get started, once things got rolling I was hooked. Quinn has a way of making things seem so real that even though I *know* the major events of the war I was still sitting with bated breath waiting to see what would happen. The fact that she pulls directly from real people's experiences makes it even more compelling; I had just as much fun reading the author's note at the end, citing where she pulled stories from and telling the tales of actual people who worked at BP, as I did reading the actual story. Once things started ramping up to Normandy I literally didn't put the book down. I sat on the couch and devoured the rest until almost three in the morning. I can't recommend this enough.