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Deirdre asked this question about Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1):
Was it just me or did anyone else think Maddie and Julie were a little more than best friends?
Wanda Baxter Close, intimate friendship is what I read. Best friends, they were described as, and I took them as that. I think we all might have a tendency to assu…moreClose, intimate friendship is what I read. Best friends, they were described as, and I took them as that. I think we all might have a tendency to assume their friendship is more - or has to be more - because this kind of very close friendship (someone you would kill for, say), would require a 'deeper' love than friendship.

I read their friendship as what I think it was intended as: best friends in a brutal scenario - the kind that makes you more honest with feeling and love because death looms. literally. Also, is there a tendency to not be able to imagine two feminine women in wartime?

I admit I occasionally wondered where the story was going with them - they might have been revealed to be more than best friends, but they weren't.

I really value the depth of real, female friendship that this book is about. You can love someone and not be their lover.

Did Kittyhawk love Verity more and in a romantic way (i.e. a one-way love story, maybe?) Maybe. But that's not really what the story was about. (less)
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