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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
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i loved this book, don't get me wrong. it has great characters and is well-researched and detailed and every scene comes alive and pops with tension and it also has all that slippery writing that i really appreciate. but how fans are practically burning effigies of veronica roth for the feels she made them feel or whatever, while this book is Beloved By All is beyond me. this book definitely has more brutal feels.
but—a great book, whose secrets will not be spoilt by me with a more detailed review; careless talk costs lives and all...
come to my blog!
but—a great book, whose secrets will not be spoilt by me with a more detailed review; careless talk costs lives and all...
come to my blog!
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Jan 27, 2014 04:26AM
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I'm anxious to hear what you thought of it. After a sea of angsty sparkly YA love triangles...this one was refreshing. Loved how the main character retained her spunk in the midst of a horrible situation. If you like this one and are on a WWII kick, Tamar by Mal Peet is mind-blowingly good (a few years old, it's a two-layer story involving the Dutch Resistance...love, secrets, betrayal...wonderful!
i am only on page 20 or so, but i know dana will be excited about the rec - that girl is always on a WWII kick...
Always happy to share the joy! I especially enjoy seeing your YA recommendations...there's always a nice variety. Thanks!
Such a great book - you will totally enjoy this one!
hehehe, karen! One of the last readers standing, and you abandoned ship. I'll be holding out until... for a very long time.
i didn't abandon ship! i am still reading it and liking it! this ship is still sailing!
And that's precisely what I meant! It's like the whole world's read this book besides me. And you! You havent even read Harry Potter!
ohhhhhh - i didn't realize it was as heavily read as HP. i didn't even know i was an outlier!! you people need to tell me when i am outlying!
I'll add it to my to-do list. When I figure out how to make to-do lists. To start with, have you read Percy Jackson and subsequent books?
i read the first one for school, and i liked it enough to intend to read more, but that's as far as i got.
I agree with your review, Karen. Good book but it doesn't move me to become the author's groupie.
I was much more affected by this book than Roth! So amazing. Of course, my book club and I got in an argument because I kept declaring this a queer novel, lol. Have you read the second? Do you plan to? I was disappointed when I found out it wasn't a "prequel" of sorts.
i was disappointed, too. i own it and will probably read it before the year is through...book clubs were made for infights!
can't wait to see what you think about the second. and yes, that's the joy of book club. In their defense, I do declare EVERYTHING gay, but this was obviously queer.
i was thinking that for a while, myself, until i decided it played stronger as a pure friendship novel, but there's definitely an argument for it.
I did love their friendship. I also thought her brother was gay. When I found out that the girl marries the brother in the next one I cracked up.
Oh no! feel better!
I liked the second book, but it definitely didn't pack the same punch as the first one.
What's the Roth connection with this book?I'm confused!
just that roth did something in the concluding volume of her trilogy that upset readers because of the emotional connection they felt to the characters. which i think is way more upsetting in a similar situation in this book, and a little less earned, in a way?
Ohhhhh. That makes sense then. I have been dragging my feets on picking up that series. The kiddies have all been asking me to, but I have been all "No, I trusted distopia to have an okay ending but once upon a time there was Prim and Katniss and Gale and Peeta and I had to get out the skeet slinger and the 12 gauge."
I listened to the audio version and it was really well done, so maybe that's why it clicked so strongly with me. I felt the queer angle too ... or the tease of it being a possibility, but in the end it definitely was a friendship novel. I didn't realize there was a 2nd book! Whoot! Will have to read the last Roth one to see what all the fuss is about.
karen wrote: "your book club should read Villette. and now back to my sickbed!"Did Erica mail you her germs or is everyone just sick now. I'm really congested and headachy this morning; hope I'm not coming down with whatever you all have.
Get well soon!
Damn Veronica Roth...damn her to heeeeeellllllllllllllllllllll...
hahaha i still really liked allegiant. I DID!
This review (which is NOT mine) does a good job summarizing my feelings on Allegiant... http://www.amazon.com/review/RX9IWT6K...
Just read that review. It sums up my feelings exactly. THANKS!
i agree with much of it, and that code name verity is much better written than allegiant (no contest), but i still liked allegiant. i like popcorn, even popcorn that doesn't really make sense.but - question - the series you reference in the beginning of your review - you don't mean that hunger games series, do you?? because if that's your idea of a happy ending, i would love to hear your reasoning.
which sounds bitchy when i read it back, but was not my intention
@karen: Ack sorry, I meant to say that is it NOT my review, so I have no idea what the author originally meant!
HAHAHAHAHA oh, okay! i was just really interested, because that is such a bleak bleak ending - i was wondering what i was missing!
HUNGER GAMES SPOILERSThe main couple both survive, their relationship survives, they marry and have kids. For a dystopia, or any series with as much death in it as that trilogy, I consider it quite a happy ending.
but it's a very damaged version of the relationship. sure - could be worse, but yeesh - so broken
I think I must have interpreted the end differently. Yes, both characters are damaged by everything that's happened to them, but it seemed to me that they still loved each other and had some optimism for the future (hence Katniss's agreeing to have kids when she previously didn't want to bring anyone new into that world). What did I miss?
oh, probably nothing - i am relying on a five-year-old memory. which, now that i did some google-refreshing, it seems i may have changed the ending slightly in my mind. dana, this is on you, too!
I am relying on a 3-year-old memory, so I could be wrong too! Maybe someone who has read it more recently will pop in to help us out.
i'm with you, karen. i never felt like katniss and peeta were together at the end because they were in love; clearly they had a bond, so they were comfortable with each other and just able to be broken together. wow, this is very poorly worded!
Oh! No ! You two I haven't seen the last one ! Does she end up with Peeta or the Liam ? She ends up with Liam - right ? Karen you owe me this one !
No more movie talk spoilers on book talk ! New rule ! Hahaha!
