Sunday, October 11, 2020

A Portrait of Loyalty (The Codebreakers, #3) by Roseanna M. White

 

A Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna M. White 


My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Category: Adult, Christian
Genre: Historical Fiction, Romance
Content: Clean

 

Zivon Marin was one of Russia's top cryptographers, until the October Revolution tore apart his world. Forced to flee after speaking out against Lenin and separated from his brother along the way, he arrives in England driven by a growing anger and determined to offer his services to the Brits.

Lily Blackwell sees the world best through the lens of a camera--and possesses unsurpassed skill when it comes to retouching and recreating photographs. With her father's connections in propaganda, she's recruited to the intelligence division, even though her mother would disapprove.

After Captain Blackwell invites Zivon to dinner one evening, a friendship blooms between him and Lily. He sees patterns in what she deems chaos; she sees beauty in a world he thought destroyed. But both have secrets they're unwilling to share. When her photographs reveal that someone has been following Zivon, his loyalties are called into question--and his enemies are discovered to be far closer than he'd feared.


I was intrigued by Lily in the previous book and was really glad that this one was about her and also Zivon, who we met in the last book as well. I enjoyed reading how their love blossomed, and the way they were able to help and comfort each other through the different ways they saw the world. 

One thing I liked about this book and the one before it is that we didn't have the typical 'misunderstanding between love interests' trope where there is a lack of communication involved. It was so refreshing to read a romance without that, where the love interests had faith in each other and never doubted each other, even if they didn't have all the information about something. Thank you Roseanna M. White for writing your characters this way!

Yet again I enjoyed the historical aspects of this series, which included the Russian Revolution, Russian cryptographers, early photography, and the Spanish Flu epidemic. This was a great conclusion to the series and I'll miss it, but I still have other books to read by this author. Up next will be the Ladies of the Manor series.

If you are interested in reading books by this author I would suggest reading in the order they were published:

Ladies of the Manor
Shadows Over England
Codebreakers

That way you will meet the characters in the order they are introduced and won't miss out on knowing who they are when they make appearances in other books. 

Thanks to NetGalley and Bethany House Publishers for providing me with an ARC of this book.


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