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Loading... Code Name Verity (Edgar Allen Poe Awards. Best Young Adult (Awards)) (edition 2012)by Elizabeth Wein
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I've really wanted to review a few recent books I've read, but it's been a while! Maybe I'll come back and edit this later if I manage to actually put my thoughts together, but for now: good book! Really good book! While I was reading I was really drawn in to the characters, desperate to find out what happened to them, and a few times surprised and delighted by little twists in the narrative that made me realise that something completely different to what I'd been expecting was, in fact, being constructed. ( ) Excellent read. The book starts with the written confessions of a captured Scottish operative whose blabbing secrets to the Germans. Right off the bat I'm thinking "I do not like this girl". But that ends quickly as the plot twists pile up. An excellent reminder of what lengths we can go to for those we love. This is an excellent story and a must read. This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers. The first in a series about child spies! The POV switches from first to third person, and is the confessions of an unreliable narrator under Nazi torture. The writing is clever and effective. I blubbered and sobbed my way through the last of this. I'm completely gormless. Kiss me, Hardy! Ugh. I'm going to go to back to crying now and I'll try to write a review later. Notes to self: -Anne Frank, Maddie comparison -Atonement comparison -Book Thief comparison (which is better? can I choose?) -want to listen to audiobook -I hate Nazis
If you pick up this book, it will be some time before you put your dog-eared, tear-stained copy back down. Wein succeeds on three fronts: historical verisimilitude, gut-wrenching mystery, and a first-person voice of such confidence and flair that the protagonist might become a classic character if only we knew what to call her. Alternately dubbed Queenie, Eva, Katharina, Verity, or Julie depending on which double-agent operation she's involved in, she pens her tale as a confession while strapped to a chair and recovering from the latest round of Gestapo torture. The Nazis want the codes that Julie memorized as a wireless operator, and she supplies them, but along the way also tells of her fierce friendship with Maddie, a British pilot. Though delivered at knifepoint, Julie's narrative is peppered with dark humor and minor acts of defiance, and the tension that builds up is practically unbearable. Was inspired byAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
In 1943, a British fighter plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France and the survivor tells a tale of friendship, war, espionage, and great courage as she relates what she must to survive while keeping secret all that she can. No library descriptions found. |
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