The idea of seeing the world as a collection of numbers and equations is somehow both calmingly logical and slightly overwhelming.

Margot’s unique way of seeing the world makes her instantly fascinating. We first met Margot in A Song Unheard as a fourteen year old, four years later The Number of Love begins. The characters are the true source of my love for this book, beginning with Margot de Wilde. Room 40 is a fascinating place, I can’t help but love the necessary mystery surrounding it, and serves as a wonderful connecting point for the three books of the Codebreakers trilogy. The Number of Love is set during WWI, in the city of London, and revolves around the Old Admiralty Building of White Hall. The Number of Love is one of my favorites of White’s books (yes, I will most likely also say this about WOD, but it is true) and re-reading it was an absolute treat, a lovely accompaniment to my hot coffee.

With the exception of mildly cringe titles, at times, they are, as a whole, basically perfection. He’s smitten quickly by the too-intelligent Margot, but how to convince a girl who lives entirely in her mind that sometimes life’s answers lie in the heart? Amidst biological warfare, encrypted letters, and a German spy who wants to destroy not just them, but others they love, Margot and Drake will have to work together to save them all from the very secrets that brought them together.Īs those who have been following me for any length of time know, I absolutely adore White’s books and own many of them. Drake Elton returns wounded from the field, followed by an enemy that just won’t give up. But when her world is turned upside down by an unexpected loss, for the first time in her life numbers aren’t enough. Margot De Wilde thrives in the environment of the secretive Room 40, where she spends her days deciphering intercepted messages. Three years into the Great War, England’s greatest asset is their intelligence network-field agents risking their lives to gather information, and codebreakers able to crack every German telegram.

Genre(s): Historical Fiction, Christian Fiction, WWI

The Number of Love by Roseanna M. White