Reddit reviews Code Name Verity

Off topic question here - Is your username based off the book Code Name Verity?

Code Name: Verity by Elizabeth Wein is really good. It's about a WWII spy who gets arrested behind enemy lines. (Not a spoiler.) https://www.amazon.com/Code-Name-Verity-Elizabeth-Wein/dp/1423152883/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522234602&sr=8-1&keywords=code+name+verity

My favorite WWII fiction is Coming Home and the Shell Seekers, both by Rosamund Pilcher. I probably listen to or read them 1-2x a year for the last 20 years. I know. Madness.

Both have storylines in Cornwall.

I also loved the Tattooist of Auschwitz. There’s some hell being raised about its possible authenticity but I loved it with a grain of salt. And Richard Armitage reads the audio book and dear god...his voice. swoon (total random aside: Richard Armitage also has an Audible production reading love poems and I love to sit in the bathtub and let him read to me. He’s dreamy.)


Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein. It’s young adult but I’ve read it at least 5 times. The audiobook is phenomenal. I can’t do it justice so I’m including the link on Amazon

If you want non-fiction:

Sarah Helm has two books to read.

One is called Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitlers Concentration Camp for Women.

This is the camp Elizabeth was sent to and executed at. When I first read the book I didn’t know anything about Ravensbrück. I didn’t know there was a special camp just for women. I didn’t know about the Rabbits and the gruesome medical experiments. I reread Guernsey and connected it to Elizabeth and it was even more horrifying.

Sarah Helm also has one called A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII that I suggest you read after Code Name Verity and Ravensbrück.

Code Name Verity. Cried and cried. I loved it, but I can never, ever, ever read it again.