[book report, abridged]

[mazily]

Code Name Verity: buy it, read it, love it, pass it on (stop, stop, full stop).

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[just_katarin]

Oh! A friend of mine was asking about this on twitter. She's interested but she has panic attacks reading about concentration camps. Would you say it's worth buying anyway?

[mazily]

Hmm. Would it be a cop out to say "I don't know"? Because, okay, the threat of the concentration camps is very real and hangs over the book--it takes place in Occupied France, and our POV characters are British (and one is Jewish), and there is mention and knowledge of some of the atrocities the Nazis were committing. The book does not go inside the camps, we as readers do not experience them directly through our POV characters, but they are definitely part of the world of the book, if that makes any sense. The threat is there; mention is made of what might happen at one of the camps; at least one character in the book at least thinks that s/he will be sent to a concentration camp; one of our POV characters is in a Gestapo prison, where she is interrogated and there is torture going on (none of it gratuitous, but it is there, as is the ever-present threat of being transferred from the prison to one of the camps