Book: The Signal Moon

 Book: The Signal Moon

Author: Kate Quinn

Pages: 57

This is my 40th read for the year

What Amazon Says:

Yorkshire, 1943.  Lily Baines, a bright young debutante increasingly ground down by an endless war, has traded in her white gloves for a set of headphones.  It's her job to intercept enemy naval communications and send them to Bletchley Park for decryption.  One night, she picks up a transmission that isn't code at all - it's a cry for help.  An American ship is taking heavy fire in the North Atlantic - but no one else has reported an attack, and the information relayed by the young US officer, Matt Jackson, seems all wrong.  The contact that Lily has me on the other end of the radio channel says it's 2023.  Across an eight-year gap, Lily and Matt must find a way to help each other:  Matt to convince her that the war she's fighting can still be won, and Lily to help him stave off the war to come.  As their connection grows stronger, they both know there's no telling when time will run out on their inexplicable link.

This was an okay book.  I like Kate Quinn, and I liked the idea of the book.  I think the short 50+ pages made it hard to put this level of story in place.  A "time travel" book in 50 pages?  It is hard to pull off.  The beginning was actually a little slow, but the ending was good.  It was a clever idea, and I liked the two main characters.  I would have liked to have had more.

Stars: 3.5