Deeply inspired and based on airplane training, if you don’t like planes this won’t be for you. Told through journal entries – which are being translated during Verity’s imprisonment – Code Name Verity tells a story of friendship. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy? ReviewĬode Name Verity is a historical fiction set during World War II and mainly surrounds airplanes and friendship. 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. Keep reading this book review for my full thoughts. So I’m glad Natasha Ngan recommended it for the 12 Authors 12 Books. I do enjoy historical fiction, but I feel like by the time I found out about it, I was past the hype period. You know those super popular books you haven’t read yet? That seems to be me and Code Name Verity.
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