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Listened to the audiobook for the first half, but then switched to reading the book as it is much faster for me to read and comprehend.
I feel like the only person in the world who didn't really like this. Too messy. Too complicated. Too...ugh. JUST WRITE THE REVIEW SARAH.
Julie is captured by the Nazis in occupied France while working undercover. Maddie is a pilot who has crashed after making an illicit run to France (she is allowed to ferry planes, just not to the continent). Julie believes that Maddie is dead, but she is actually living with resistors. They share the (again overly complicated) narration.
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Julie is captured by the Nazis in occupied France while working undercover. Maddie is a pilot who has crashed after making an illicit run to France (she is allowed to ferry planes, just not to the continent). Julie believes that Maddie is dead, but she is actually living with resistors. They share the (again overly complicated) narration.
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This book and I had some major quandary, not-quite arguments for the first 60% of it, due in large part of the fact the narrator is entirely unreliable and thus hard to believe or trust no matter what is happening or being told. You know from the beginning that everything you are about to be told is going to be lie, but you find yourself struggling to see the truth's through the colors and lights dancing on the water (whether they are happy narrations, or graphic depictions of grueling horror).
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This is a book with good premises - two best friends, both young adult females and had quite unusual and important roles during the World War II. They faced dangerous situation when a duty brought them to Nazi occupied France. However, the first part of the story (written by Verity) is really slow and agonizing, I almost felt stuck to finish the book. But luckily the second part of the book felt more flowing and easier to digest.
This was an extraordinary book. I had to put it down multiple times for all the sobbing I was doing. I can't recall the last time a book affected me so deeply.
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Perhaps it was the audio version or my own state of my mind when I began this book, but I could not connect with this story at all. I wanted to and I gave it longer than usual to try, but now it's time to call it. Not the one for me.
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Wow. This one took me a while to get into - probably due to my reading it in spurts. But once I dedicated some time to it and began to understand the flow of the narrative I truly loved it. A heart wrenching story of friendship.
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Jana
marked it as couldn-t-finish
About 2/3 of the way through I just couldn't handle the stress anymore. I read a summary of the book on wikipedia to see how it ended and I am glad I abandoned the book.
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