Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Publishing year: 2012
Rating: 4/5
Publisher: Hyperion Press
Publishing year: 2012
Rating: 4/5
Synopsis:
I have two weeks. You’ll shoot me at the end no matter what I do.
That’s what you do to enemy agents. It’s what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine — and I will do anything, anything, to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again.
He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. And I’m going to. But the story of how I came to be here starts with my friend Maddie. She is the pilot who flew me into France — an Allied Invasion of Two.
We are a sensational team.
That’s what you do to enemy agents. It’s what we do to enemy agents. But I look at all the dark and twisted roads ahead and cooperation is the easy way out. Possibly the only way out for a girl caught red-handed doing dirty work like mine — and I will do anything, anything, to avoid SS-Hauptsturmführer von Linden interrogating me again.
He has said that I can have as much paper as I need. All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. And I’m going to. But the story of how I came to be here starts with my friend Maddie. She is the pilot who flew me into France — an Allied Invasion of Two.
We are a sensational team.
Review:
It took me a while to get used to the voice of this book. For one it's in first person, which I am slowly becoming used to but its an uphill battle. For another it didn't have a good start.
First sentence: "I am a coward."
Okay that's not too bad. It does generate curiosity, which is always good but the next ten pages or so are dull. Secondly, I just found it very hard to like the narrator, at first anyway.
Thanks to some pretty awesome reviews I stuck through the boring bits and got to the more interesting ones that other reviews promised. Now I can say without a doubt I love this book. It's not an all time favorite of mine but neither is it a castaway.
As far as WWII novels go, I prefer Soldier X. It's a little less detailed, and oddly enough I like that. Still it was nice to learn so much about planes. It was hard at first but after two hundred pages I could say I had learned a little something.What really pulled me in was the characterization and relationships between the characters. It was written to come off as sincere and genuine. It succeeded. There was no insta-love or fake friendships. The ending was heartbreaking because I felt that I truly knew Julie and Maddie as people. It was so realistic, this story could have been based on a true story.
When all was said and done and I closed this book, one quote remains in my head.
"Fly the plane, Maddie."