A review by lilac_moon125
The Killing Code by Ellie Marney

4.0

Good, but not great. But! But. I am so happy that this is a queer historical romance. Even if it kind of skated over the fact that, well, most people would probably not have been so accepting (hopefully your friends would accept you, but you never know) and that the happy ending being presented at the end didn't really talk about the fact that, um, lots of people were homophobes in the 1940s. I am all for casual representation, but casual represention usually doesn't mean completely ignoring society's views on queer people, or internalised homophobia, especially in the 1940s. The romance was still quite sweet though even if it was a bit too fast-paced for me.
Ugh, I kind of forgot all the other things I was going to say about this book, and I also didn't get to mark anything because I borrowed the book from a library. But I guess it was a pretty good historical thriller, so, yeah.