Signal Moon

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Manufacturer: Kate Quinn
Brand: Historical Fiction, Science Fiction, Time Travel
Brew: Ebook
Steeping Time: 49 pages
Tea Service: Amazon First Reads
Strength:

Synopsis: 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 made on the other end of the radio channel says it’s…2023.

Across an eighty-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.

If Kate Quinn writes it, I will buy it. Period.

When Signal Moon popped up in Amazon First Reads, I chose it without looking at the rest of the books available. Kate Quinn is a fantastic author (see my reviews on The Rose Code and The Alice Network), and I will purchase any book she writes. I don’t need to read the synopsis. I don’t need to know anything about it. She is amazing and her books have never failed me.

Signal Moon was no different. It captivated me from the first page and is still gripping my heart days after finishing it. My only complaint, and it’s a big one, is that I wanted more!! I’d have given anything to have this as a full-length novel, but I’m so glad I got it at all in a short story. And truly, there wasn’t anything missing. It was a fully fleshed-out story with developed characters and a killer plot. That’s the real beauty of it; you don’t need more than what you get. It tells the full story.

I don’t want to go into too much detail for this review because the book is so short and I don’t want to give anything away.

I will say that it is an excellent twist on a historical fiction story, and it married perfectly with sci-fi, which admittedly isn’t one of my favorite genres. This, however, had me—hook, line, and sinker. The plot is phenomenal. It obviously has a fast pace, seeing as it doesn’t have enough pages to move slowly. The two main characters are instantly brought to life, and within moments, I felt I knew them intimately. I rooted for them throughout, and their story brought me to tears in the end.

If you’re interested in fabled events like the Philadelphia Experiment, Signal Moon is a quick read that I think you will adore. It resonates along the same lines of bizarre science fiction wormholes or loopholes, or whatever you want to call them, that seem so juxtaposed to the WWII era. I highly recommend Signal Moon for those that love WWII historical fiction or science fiction. If you like one but not the other, give Signal Moon a try anyway. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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Cheers,
Lydia