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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)

Elizabeth Wein

Start date: December 1, 2012

Finish date: December 31, 2012

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Nov 29, 2015 Kennedy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

My, my, my what a read. This is a history lesson, an airplane lesson, a landscape lesson, a soul searching storyteller lesson but above all a story of perseverance and friendship. Gut-wrenching and memorable.

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May 28, 2013 emily rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: get-angry-now, titles-i-love, non-linear-narrative, young-adult, lil-bit-more-than-friends, good-for-her, friendships, queer-characters, made-me-cryyyyy, books-i-own-physical

I am going to bawl for the rest of my life. Fuck this book, fuck it so hard. I'm covered in snot and tears and I'm so MAD.

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May 03, 2020 Laianna rated it really liked it

I liked the idea of this story but the pacing was very strange. Two climactic revelations happen in the middle of the book and from there to the end it’s mainly falling action. I appreciated the research into female pilots and spies during World War II but I felt that too much time was spent on where the narrator got ink and paper to write things down. I can suspend my disbelief about a captive’s ability to write her own memoir, but the more my attention is drawn to it, the less I buy it. As oth ...more

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Mar 20, 2017 Angie rated it really liked it

Shelves: ebooks, recommended-to-me, young-adult-books, set-in-the-uk, so-gay-but-not-technically-gay, historical-fiction, why-ending-why

POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD. I tried to keep it vague, but if you're interested in reading this book, don't read any reviews.

I'm really struggling knowing what to say about this book. I didn't love it. I struggled to read it most of the time. I hated how it ended but loved it too. But this book is well written. It kept me guessing and plotting and hoping the entire way, until the last page. The protagonists are interesting and heroic and female(!), and there's no love story inserted into their story ...more

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May 31, 2013 Lauren rated it it was amazing

Shelves: loved, made-me-cry, identity, ladies-loving-ladies, history-catch-all, lady-business, badass-ladies

The only thing anyone who has read Code Name Verity will undoubtedly tell you about Code Name Verity: go into it knowing nothing. It's true, you shouldn't even be reading this review. Code Name Verity is such a wonderful, wonderful book. It's also impossible to describe. It's about friendship, and bravery, and determination, with painfully good writing on top of everything else. I listened to the audio version, which is also so, so well done..

Basically, this book is wonderful. Believe the hype. ...more

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