Code Name Verity

3.5 stars "Verity," I said in English, and exhaled every last molecule of nicotine and oxygen I had inside me. Then gasped: "'Truth is the daughter of time, not authority.'" And:"'This above all, to ...

Let me start by saying I am SO glad I chose to finish this in the privacy of my own vehicle, instead of on the sidelines of Amya's volleyball practice, because then I would have treated those 7th ...

I am fighting inside about how to rate this one. This book is loved by many, many people who I respect and this is one of the times where I felt a bit of peer pressure to love a book. But I really ...

Among my Goodreads friends, Code Name Verity seems to fall very clearly into two categories: "Not for me" and "True love 5ever!". There are actually very few people I know who sit in between these ...

**I received an e-galley of this book for free through Netgalley** I am writing this review at 2:00 am. I had about 20% of the book left when I picked it up at midnight, struck by mild insomnia. Now I ...

Brilliant historical fiction: clever, complex and compelling. I'm not generally a fan of WWII stories, or really any war stories at all, and the details (that I mostly skimmed over) about warfare and ...

Absolutely phenomenal book! Must read!! Can't say anything about it because it would spoil the story. Just, amazing!

I might have enjoyed this book but it was so scientifically inaccurate that I couldn't. You CAN'T light kerosine with a match, it just doesn't work. (Not that I've tried it) (Well, I have, but not down someone's throat.)

Interestingly, I was just reading a blog posting by Ned Vezzini about the importance of the first line of a book. He was discussing how only a few books, whose reputations precede them, can afford to ...

From Blue Butterfly Books. The second I found out about this book, I whipped out the debit card and bought it. It didn't even matter that I had a mini fit over not having the UK cover of the book (I ...