REVIEW: "The Cryptographer's Dilemma" by Johnnie Alexander

 

About the Book...

*Title: The Cryptograoher's Dilemma

*Author: Johnnie Alexander

*Genre: Christian, Historical fiction, Romance

*Series: Book #1 of the Heroines of WW11 series {multi-authored, not connecting}

*Recommend for: Ages 16+

My Personal Rating

⭐⭐⭐⭐

📖Synopsis

A Code Developer Uncovers a Japanese Spy Ring
 
FBI cryptographer Eloise Marshall is grieving the death of her brother, who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor, when she is assigned to investigate a seemingly innocent letter about dolls. Agent Phillip Clayton is ready to enlist and head oversees when asked to work one more FBI job. A case of coded defense coordinates related to dolls should be easy, but not so when the Japanese Consulate gets involved, hearts get entangled, and Phillip goes missing. Can Eloise risk loving and losing again?

💭My Thoughts 

Confession: I was so invested into this story that I did not take a single note on my thoughts or content for this review. I'm sorry. Sooo...if you are looking for a very in-depth, detailed review with thorough content notes, check out this review. But elsewise, here is a very rough, very broad outline of my own thoughts.

The historical elements of this book were simply fascinating. I found the book so hard to put down at certain parts and as soon as I finished, I did a ton of research on the Doll Woman from WW2. It was just so intriguing! The reason I was so invested into this story was not really that it was incredible fast-paced, but simply because I found the history so fascinating.

The romance was cute…I liked both Eloise and Philip well enough. I do wish that a few comments were left out, and a couple very little things weren't my favorite, but aside from those it was an enjoyable, unique, riveting read for sure!

I am very interested in reading more books from this series and would recommend this book to older teens who want an interesting WW2 historical book filled with elements of adventure, intrigue, spies, codes, and a touch of romance!

Bonus link for more info! The Cryptographer’s Dilemma ~ Behind the Scenes |

⚠️ (Very rough, broad) content notes

Many mentions of the elements of WW2; bombs, fighting, deaths, the death penalty, treason, torture, kidnapping, suicide, grief, etc. Drinking & smoking. Talk of divorce & abandoning family. Kisses (a couple lightly detailed), wanting to kiss & remembering kisses. A mention of a man possibly being a bigamist. "God knew where" said. Note: Towards the start of the book, Phillip is bitter because of his colorblindness & that he couldn't join the Air Force.

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Bookishly yours, 

Lottie M.