: *THUMP* "Um, Katie, you OK up there?" ". : Okay, so, I have to pee, but I really don't want to have to stop reading. : Biting freshly manicured fingernails to smithereens DAMNIT WEIN I PAID FORTY DOLLARS FOR THESE NAILS. : This may be the best WW II novel I've ever read. I just fell out of bed." Page : DAMN this book is good. All I really want is for a book to rouse some passion in me, whether it be excitement, sadness, anger even. The best parts of this book were the touching ending and the fact that the narrator is delightfully unreliable (I love them, I do! Eugenides, I miss you.) but I needed more. There's only so many descriptions of a pilot's job I can sit through before I start to snooze, each to their own but flying planes has never been an interest of mine. Being a woman and a pilot myself, I wanted to explore the possibilities that would have been open to me during the second world war."Īnd not enough else was brought in. "This book started off rather simply as a portrait of an Air Transport Auxiliary pilot. If you read the author's note at the end she will tell you that this book is actually meant to be about pilots: But, for me, there was just too big a focus on piloting and aircraft and I'm sorry but I struggled to care. It's about women's involvement in the war and us Northern girls - two topics that don't get nearly enough press. I cannot tell you just how much I wanted to like this.
This book is not very plot-focused or fast-paced, it's about conversations and people and female pilots during the second world war, which would all have been great if it had been balanced out with a touch of drama. Maddie's story is told in various anecdotes, a technique I've already failed to appreciate in The Book Thief but I suppose the intention was to subtly build up a picture of both girls' pasts and their friendship. She is given paper to tell her story and she does so through the eyes of her friend Maddie. The novel opens where the narrator has been captured by the Nazi opposition during WWII. I just found 90% of the book long-winded and unnecessary. I mentioned this very recently in my review of The Book Of Blood And Shadow and it is also similar to the experience I had trying to read The Book Thief and Feed.
#SOUL WORKER WARLIKE FIGHTING TITLE CODE#
Code Name Verity is one of those books that are the reason why I created the shelf its-me-not-you. I have a feeling I'm not going to be very popular by posting this review, everyone seems to love this book so far and I feel more disappointed in myself and my tastes than the novel or the author. Code Name Verity is an outstanding novel that will stick with you long after the last page.more Harrowing and beautifully written, Elizabeth Wein creates a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage and failure and her desperate hope to make it home. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.Īs she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. One of the girls has a chance at survival. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France.
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