Can you give a book more then 5 stars because this book deserves it? As with the other books I have ready by Kate Quinn, I was immediately sucked in and could not put it down. I found myself taking every spare moment I could find to just finish one more chapter because I needed to know what happened next!

Quinn employs the format of writing in the "present" while building up the past to give her reader the background information they need. Like the code in the book, the story blooms like a beautiful rose and I could not wait to see what was around the next turn. Each of the characters are complex, flawed humans with facets that make you love them and furious with them at the same time.