The Huntress by Kate Quinn review

Title:  The Huntress 

Author: Kate Quinn

Pages: 549

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rating: 4.5 stars

Publisher: William Morrow

 

The Huntress is my second book by Kate Quinn and I have to say I loved it just as much as I loved as The Rose Code, but I do have to say I enjoyed the mystery aspect of this one.  The storyline of WWII, post war coming together at the end in the 1950s were all three points of view sort of much and the three people telling the story actually meet.  I have to say my favorite character was Jordan with Tony being a close second. I enjoyed his humor especially when he and Ian were joking about reading or not reading Moby Dick and Tony says he got out of reading it in highs school by enlisting the day after Pearl Harbor.   But the book is not all humor because Ian and Tony are hunting down The Huntress a female assassin for the Nazi with the help of Nina who's the only one who escaped her.  Jordon finds herself in the middle of the hunt and doesn't even know it.   And the least likely person will be the one to put the final piece together.  But it could have happened sooner if people had been honest with each other.

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn Review

 Title:  The Rose Code

 Author:  Kate Quinn

Ch: 85 plus prologue and epilogue

Pg:  624

Genre:  Historical fiction

Rating: 4.5 stars

Publisher: William Morrow

 

The Rose Code is my first book by Kate Quinn and I have to say it won't be my last. What drew me to The Rose Code was the fact that it was historical fiction focusing on three fictional women who it turns out were based on real women who worked at Bletchley Park. Helping to break code during WWII. A part of history in fiction  I've been fascinated with sense I read The London Restoration and I want   more.  An though The Rose Code is fiction it’s easy to imagine what  the real life people who inspired the novel went through.  In the novel Olsa Kendall, Mab Churt and Beth Finch not only have to keep secret about what they do at Bletchley park  from their families and boyfriends. They also have to keep secret what they work on in their huts from the others who work at Bletchley Park. I

 

I loved how the novel slipped between the war years and what was going on at BP to the days leading up to the royal wedding, though princess Elizabeth wedding was mentioned it didn't take away from the story of Olsa, Mab and Beth it actually added to it. Though out the course of the novel the three women grew and change despite the past that shaped them. Mab from her simple upbringing, Beth from an overbearing parent and Osla's status as a debutante, each wants to do what they can for the war to prove not only to themselves but to those around them.    Women did pretty much everything it seems for the war effort and until recently what they did at BP was a national secret.  I hope readers discover The Rose Code and the amazing fictional women in its pages inspired by even more amazing real life women who helped Britain win the war.