The Number of Love

JustRead Publicity Tours Review

Welcome to the Blog Tour & Giveaway for  The Number of Love by Roseanna M. White with JustRead Publicity Tours!

Follow along with the tour for a special inside peek at how The Number of Love which is connected to the author’s previous book from another series, A Song Unheard.

You can find my review and character spotlights for A Song Unheard HERE. 

My thoughts on The Number of Love:

I have loved everything I have ever read by Roseanna M. White, and I’ve read everything of hers that I’ve been able to find.  They’re marvelous.  They are wonderful.  You will love them.

Really, I should just go ahead and say go get this book and read it now.  You will not want to stop reading.  It’s wonderful!

I loved getting to know Margot more.  She is someone I can relate to as I’ve always had an affinity for numbers and love solving number puzzles and such.  Numbers can also be calming as they are always in a pattern.  I can relate to how she sees them everywhere.  That is she did see them everywhere until one disaster befell her too many and her life changed forever.  And then the numbers stopped.  Not the numbers that you see on a page but the numbers inside, the ones that would dance through her head, the voice of God.

As someone who is not Catholic, I don’t have that in common with our main character group in this story, but I could still relate to them on so many levels.  It’s all about asking the right questions!

The teaser at the end with who the next Codebreaker book will follow was also a great one.  I can’t wait to hear his story and find out what really happened with his pivotal life moment.

WWI is not a time period I am extremely familiar with, especially as it would pertain to those living in England at the time.  I knew that they did some horrible things but I never realized that anthrax could possibly have been involved.  War is such a different time period.  Learning new bits and pieces of history always fascinate me.

Is it asking too much for the next book to be available right now?

Pivotal and key points to me in the story without giving away too much include dealing with grief in a healthy or unhealthy way. We see both in this story.  As a nurse and a mental health nurse at that, it is such a great thing to talk about and shed light on.  I don’t think that way even on the author’s radar when writing this book but maybe it was.  Grief causes us to lose parts of ourselves we didn’t know we needed.  It’s how we fill the holes that matter. 

Reading is a fun pastime for me. I love that I can escape into a book.  The really good books make you a part of the story rather than just a bystander though.  This is one of those books.  It draws you in and then makes you a character.  I related most with Margot.  Though I have to admit Drake was also very relatable to me.  I really enjoyed meeting his character and learning about him.

Margot turns 18 within the pages of this book.  She’s a child forced into adulthood during the war.  Although she maintains that she was never truly a child as her mind was never that of a child with her numbers racing through.  Life marches on whether we’re ready for it or not and sometimes death comes like a thief with no warning.  You’d think during the war she’d be used to that by now.

I have voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book which I received from JustRead Publicity Tours. All views expressed are only my honest opinion.  I was not required to write a positive review nor was I compensated in any other way.  All opinions expressed are my own.  I am disclosing this in accordance with the FTC regulations. 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Title: The Number of Love

Series: Codebreakers #1

Author: Roseanna M. White

Publisher: Bethany House

Release Date: June 4, 2019

Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance/Intrigue

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. Margot De Wilde thrives in the environment of the secretive Room 40, where she spends her days deciphering intercepted messages. But when her world is turned upside down by an unexpected loss, for the first time in her life numbers aren’t enough.

Drake Elton returns wounded from the field, followed by an enemy that just won’t give up. 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.

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Title: A Song Unheard

Series: Shadows Over England #2

Author: Roseanna M. White

Publisher: Bethany House

Release Date: January 2, 2018

Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance/Intrigue

Willa Forsythe is both a violin prodigy and top-notch thief, which make her the perfect choice for a crucial task at the outset of World War I—to steal a cypher from a famous violinist currently in Wales.

Lukas De Wilde has enjoyed the life of fame he’s won—until now, when being recognized nearly gets him killed. Everyone wants the key to his father’s work as a cryptologist. And Lukas fears that his mother and sister, who have vanished in the wake of the German invasion of Belgium, will pay the price. The only light he finds is in meeting the intriguing Willa Forsythe.

But danger presses in from every side, and Willa knows what Lukas doesn’t—that she must betray him and find that cypher, or her own family will pay the price as surely as his has.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award nominated author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself.

Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.

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