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Excellent follow-up to Code Name Verity, although there is no surprise twist in the story like there is in the first one. In this book we are introduced to another woman pilot in England during World War II, Rose Justice, who becomes friends with Maddie (from the first book) as they are ferrying planes across Europe for the war. The first third of the book is her life as a pilot, with lots of flying action and the terror of hiding from V-1 "Doodlebug" bombs (pilotless planes, which all of the pi
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This book wasn't bad, but Code Name Verity completely blew me away, and I think I was hoping for a similar experience with Rose Under Fire. Julie and Maddie were such memorable characters. They are part of a select group that stay in my mind as if they were actual people that I met. Rose did not have the same impact on me. I liked her, but she won't stick with me in the same way. I listened to the audiobook, and some of the voices really grated on me, so that didn't help. I also found the book f
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Elizabeth Wein has an amazing ability to create connections from her readers to her characters. When it seemed that Rose was lost or missing and assumed dead, I wanted to cry, and the book was still beginning. I love her ability to make you care, and I enjoyed the fragile connections to Code Name Verity -- this book didn't disappoint, though it was difficult to experience Ravensbruck camp with Rose.
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Was this 5 star good? Probably - which also probably why it was so hard to read. I read a lot of Holocaust books in high school, and I think I'm increasingly sensitive to stories like this - it was the first time I read a book like this and wondered how anyone survives, not physically but mentally. So yes, excellent but difficult.
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