The Rose Code

April 25, 2021 |  No Comments

The Rose Code

by Kate Quinn

Date Published: March 9, 2021
Published By: William Morrow Paperbacks
Page Count: 624


Publisher’s Description:

“The reigning queen of historical fiction” —  Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue  

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over.

1940. 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. 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. 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. 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. But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart.

1947. 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. 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. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger–and their true enemy–closer…


My Star Rating:

4 of 5 stars

My Review:

The Rose CodeThe Rose Code by Kate Quinn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Another powerful historical novel by Kate Quinn.

I love how her books have so much girl power. I love the characters and how much personality they each have. In The Rose Code, I loved how the women’s relationships with each other evolved over time, and how the men were so threatened by these women that some went to great lengths to try to silence them.

There were times in this book when my heart utterly broke, and the responses the characters had to such tragic circumstances were so raw and real, and really captured how everyone responds to grief in their own personal ways.

There were also times in this book where I saw women who were in moments of utter shame and defeat, moments that instead of breaking them, made them evolve into these powerful icons. Such as when poor defenseless and vulnerable Mable stood naked in her kitchen after being totally violated, bloodied, and bruised, but decided in that moment that Mable was dead and Queen Mab arose from the ashes. Powerful!

I simply adored this book. Great for anyone who loves historical fiction, WWII fiction, women’s fiction, and any readers with a true feminist heart.

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