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A review by boisdelaire
Nom de code: Verity by Elizabeth Wein
3.0
★★★ ─── 3 stars read.
oh i wish i could have told the younger me that dnfing this book was not the right move, but i totally get why she did it. it was not a bad story per say, historical fiction gets me and i get her, we clearly share a bond. i liked the characters but not enough to get attached to them and « care » for their fate. there was too much plane talk and it just killed me when i had to read about it, so i had to speed-read through these passages or i would dnf it again (and we didn’t want that in the big old 2023). the author is a pilot herself and i respect that a lot but that’s so not my cup of tea.
i preferred way more the « present » days confessions, where the main character would talk about what the nazis did to her and how she wanted to live longer to tell her story, which led to a great plot-twist with the introduction of the second character, and understanding why she did what she did. and then the final plot-twist was shocking, which actually kept me reading until the end because i was hurting for the two girls.
(was i the only one to see the kinda homoerotic relationship they shared as best friends or it was just me? just me? okay)
oh i wish i could have told the younger me that dnfing this book was not the right move, but i totally get why she did it. it was not a bad story per say, historical fiction gets me and i get her, we clearly share a bond. i liked the characters but not enough to get attached to them and « care » for their fate. there was too much plane talk and it just killed me when i had to read about it, so i had to speed-read through these passages or i would dnf it again (and we didn’t want that in the big old 2023). the author is a pilot herself and i respect that a lot but that’s so not my cup of tea.
i preferred way more the « present » days confessions, where the main character would talk about what the nazis did to her and how she wanted to live longer to tell her story, which led to a great plot-twist with the introduction of the second character, and understanding why she did what she did. and then the final plot-twist was shocking, which actually kept me reading until the end because i was hurting for the two girls.
(was i the only one to see the kinda homoerotic relationship they shared as best friends or it was just me? just me? okay)