Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
I have two weeks. You'll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.

That's what you do to enemy agents. It's what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine - and I will do anything, anything to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again.

He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. And I'm going to. But the story of how I came to be here starts with my friend Maddie. She is the pilot who flew me into France - an Allied Invasion of Two.

We are a sensational team.
 (via Goodreads)

(I read it in February sometime)

Positives:
1. World War II story
2. Dual POVs
3. The second half I couldn't put down
4. Powerful Women (in an era where they were more suppressed)
5. Printz Honor
6. Physical beauty (...is everything. Just kidding)
7. A very complex plot

Negatives:
1. It was very hard for me to get into, so it took me more than three weeks to complete
2. All of Verity's narrative I honestly didn't love (which is like half the book)
3. This is in part due to the fact that I was so slow at reading it, but I got so confused at some parts.

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