YOU GUYS!

So I almost never recommend a book before I finish reading it, but ALL OF YOU (specifically redbrunja, amenirdis, dbalthasar, eldanna, oparu and penknife) should really pre-order CODE NAME VERITY by Elizabeth E Wein as soon as possible. It comes out on May 15 in North America. If you live in England, you can get it already.

CODE NAME VERITY takes place in WWII, and features the story of a Scottish aristocrat who has become a wireless operator and a English girl who has become a pilot. It is the story of their friendship, training, experience in wartime England (and a bit in Scotland), and also what happens when the pair of them end up on a disastrous mission in France.

I've basically been having a series of heart attacks since I started reading this. It's everything that made THE BOOK THIEF amazing, times about million. Airplanes, spies, codes, motorcycles, Scottish common sense, survival...and friendship.

I would say more, but I have to go finish the ARC now. If you buy it, you will NOT be disappointed.

Book #32: Code Name Verity, by Elizabeth E Wein

Every now and then a book comes along that is, quite simply, the best book you have ever read. I have read a lot of really amazing books since I started keeping track of them in 2010, and they've all be amazing for different reasons, but CODE NAME VERITY is in a class above. I said half-way through reading this book that you should all read it. I'm now all the way through, and I stand by what I said, times about a million, because Part II took Part I and...well, that would be telling.

What is about to follow is me flailing in CAPS in a spoilery fashion about how much I adored this book with some very specific reasons. You don't need to read that. Actually, unless you've read CODE NAME VERITY, you should DEFINITELY NOT read it. You should pre-order it (unless you live in England, in which case you can just buy it), because it is flipping amazing.

( Kiss me, Hardy! )

There might be spoilers in the comments, if rj_anderson says something and I can muster up some coherency back at her.

10/10. Possibly 25/10. Possibly INFINITY/10. Definitely INFINITY/10.

Fly the plane, Maddie. Fly the plane.