Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity #1)
Elizabeth Wein
Oct. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
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4.5 stars. Amazing book, and I already look forward to reading it again sometime.
EDIT: Two days later and this story and it's characters are haunting me. Upgraded to five stars. The storytelling is just clever. It's hard to write much more than that without giving anything away.
0Really enjoyed this book and both narrators of the audio book!
Was a tiny bit surprised at the (probably realistic) level of torture/violence because of its Young Adult category. I mean, I'm no stranger to this in YA, but for some reason it continued to surprise me here. Plus, both protagonists are seemingly early-mid twenties (even when they don't act like it), so to me this was just more adult than young adult, but whatever.
Loved the Scottish accent of the Queenie narrator; liked that Queenie was telling her story from Maddie's point of view; did think there were slow moments/long descriptions. I was surprised to find that I thought the piloting and flying descriptions were interesting--at first. When the POV switched, I was VERY glad to not have any more of those.
On the whole, I enjoyed the story and the girl's friendship. I think some bits could have been shorter, and perhaps some more suspense or action could have really spiced things up, but I liked the book.
Would recommend to people interested in female friendship and female pilots in WWII.
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