It’s hard for me, sometimes, to gather the stones to tell you all that I didn’t really like a book that is almost universally adored and that is, sadly, the situation I find myself in now. I finished CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth Wein nearly two months ago, and I’ve just sat down to write my review now. This is one of those reviews that I have dreaded writing for a long while. Printz Award Honor book that was called “a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel” in The New York Times, 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.Ĭrap, friends. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?Ī Michael L. 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. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.Īs 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. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she’s living a spy’s worst nightmare. When “Verity” is arrested by the Gestapo, she’s sure she doesn’t stand a chance.

The other has lost the game before it’s barely begun.

One of the girls has a chance at survival. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. 11th, 1943-A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Title // Author: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein ( web | twitter)

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