Wein, Elizabeth E. - Code Name Verity
Thu, Aug. 2nd, 2012 02:00 pmA young woman is captured as a spy in Nazi-occupied France. And there's stuff about female pilots in WWII.
This is one of those books you want to read while knowing the least possible amount about the content. If you do know more, it won't ruin the book, since I think the book will stand up well to multiple readings, but it is a spy narrative.
As a note, potential trigger warnings for oblique interrogation details, along with wartime violence.
For people who want to know more, this book has amazing female friendship (SO SLASHY), excellent characters, Nazis in WWII who are genuinely terrifying and prosaic at the same time, plots within plots, and given how in love I was with stories about the French Resistance in WWII, this would have been my absolute favoritest book EVAR EVAR EVAR if I had read it as a kid.
Not that it isn't a favorite now, but younger me probably would have made up stories and fic and enacted key scenes and made her friends play different parts and such.
( SPOILERS LIEK WHOA )
I don't really have a conclusion, since my main reaction is to flail and wave my hands and tell people to read it so I can talk about it with them. But this is definitely on the "best books I've read in 2012" list, and I knew it even though I finished it back in May.
Links:
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skygiants' review
-musesfool's review
-rachelmanija's review (no spoilers in post or comments)
Assume spoilers in comments!
This is one of those books you want to read while knowing the least possible amount about the content. If you do know more, it won't ruin the book, since I think the book will stand up well to multiple readings, but it is a spy narrative.
As a note, potential trigger warnings for oblique interrogation details, along with wartime violence.
For people who want to know more, this book has amazing female friendship (SO SLASHY), excellent characters, Nazis in WWII who are genuinely terrifying and prosaic at the same time, plots within plots, and given how in love I was with stories about the French Resistance in WWII, this would have been my absolute favoritest book EVAR EVAR EVAR if I had read it as a kid.
Not that it isn't a favorite now, but younger me probably would have made up stories and fic and enacted key scenes and made her friends play different parts and such.
( SPOILERS LIEK WHOA )
I don't really have a conclusion, since my main reaction is to flail and wave my hands and tell people to read it so I can talk about it with them. But this is definitely on the "best books I've read in 2012" list, and I knew it even though I finished it back in May.
Links:
(all links go to the day post to preserve spoiler cuts)
-
skygiants' review-
musesfool's review-
rachelmanija's review (no spoilers in post or comments)Assume spoilers in comments!