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Obviously they did not have the same language for things that we do now, but she didn’t like people touching her and didn’t enjoy crowds. All of the characters are white, and I definitely had the thought, “you know what would make this even better? Lesbians.” However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Beth was coded as autistic. Representation was generally kind of lacking. And as someone who enjoys my literature with optimism and love, I definitely appreciated it. That’s what this book is ultimately about. Mab has a speech about love that definitely made me cry. So much of this book was just so beautiful. It’s about friendship, and love, and family, and found family, and heartbreak, and starting over, and self love.
#Kate quinn code
The Rose Code really does have a lot of amazing themes. Like, I had visceral emotional reactions, which is always amazing. There were times where I was truly proud, angry, jubilant, and sad. I also have to give the book immense credit for making me feel emotions so strongly. The plotline itself was a bit of a puzzle, which I appreciated in a book all about puzzles. I was convinced for most of the book that I knew exactly who the traitor was, until I realized that couldn’t be it, and had to completely re-asses. The best part is, of course, when twists are delivered in one timeline that alter your perception of the other. Each timeline you would think you would know what was happening, and then a new piece of information would be revealed. She always kept the reader on their toes.
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I think dual timelines can be really difficult, but the way Quinn used it was just so smart, thoughtful, and deliberate. The execution of the dual timelines was fantastic.
#Kate quinn crack
After the war, right on the eve of Princess Elizabeth’s wedding, the three women must attempt to discover if there was a traitor among them at Bletchley, and crack the codes the find who. They are working with highly classified information, and have to learn to keep the secret of what they really do. During World War II Osla, Mab, and Beth work at the mysterious Bletchley Park, the code-breaking center of Britain. The Rose Code follows three young women, two timelines, and one deadly mystery. I still liked it, but I definitely didn’t connect to it as deeply as I would have liked. So ultimately, I couldn’t quite give it 5 stars. Of course, the issues with getting so excited for a book is that it’s nearly impossible to have your expectations met. So to say I was excited for this book is an understatement. I absolutely loved Kate Quinn’s The Alice Network, and I also happen to be really interested in code breaking and Bletchley. I found it weirdly difficult to encapsulate my thoughts about this book. And I wrote one back on my Goodreads when I first read the book, and this is slightly revised, but it still isn’t perfect. This review honestly took me so long to write. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger–and their true enemy–closer… A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past, and now Osla, Mab, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter–the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband.
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Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. I was provided with an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.ġ940. Trigger Warnings: grief, death, depictions of bombs, parental abuse, patient abuse, vomiting, straightjacket, mentions of rape, sexual assault.