I do not think this is the type of book to be read aloud. I think the narrator did a good job, don't get me wrong. Pick was good, and if she had been bad, my rating would have been lower. It's just that in Verity, the repetition isn't as annoying because of the circumstances there. In this book, the...
I picked this up fully knowing that it was an Elizabeth Wein novel, aka that it would rip out my heartstrings and make me cry bitter tears in the name of friendship. If you don’t believe me, go read Code Name Verity, which is on the list of my favorite books of all time. What I didn’t realize when I...
Code Name Verity was one of my most devastating reads of 2014 (or, maybe it was 2013), reducing me to sobs. It took me a while to gird my loins for another Elizabeth Wein WW2 read. In honor of Memorial Day, I decided that I would dive in. Rose Under Fire is a companion novel, not a sequel, and tel...
I waited a while before writing this review in hopes I’ll have a better idea of how to express my feelings. As it turns out, I don’t. I was expecting a heart wrenching beautiful and historically accurate story, based on what I experienced with Code Name Verity, but I was still blown away by it. They...
Rose Justice is a ATA pilot, ferrying people and planes so that men can fight. One day, on a routine flight in Europe she tries to interfere with a doodlebug and ends up being escorted to an airport by some German pilots. From there she ends up in Ravensbruck where she witnesses some terrible thin...
Eighteen year old Rose was steadfast in her goals in life. Flying since she was twelve, she became a ferry pilot with the ATA transporting British and American aircraft in WWII but she felt she was missing something. Rose wanted a more active role as she wanted to sit in the driver’s seat in the...
Rose, an American ATA pilot during WWII, is captured by the Nazis on her way back from a mission and is sent to Ravensbrück, a concentration camp. Told mostly in journal entries, Rose recounts her story and the experiences of the women she met, as well as the effect it had on her after she gets out....
Elizabeth Wein knows how to rip out my heart and leave it on the floor when it comes to following her protagonists. Most certainly with respect to my first read with her in "Code Name Verity", but also here in "Rose Under Fire.""Rose Under Fire" is a follow-up novel to "Code Name Verity" about a gro...
Another powerful, moving, important novel from Elizabeth Wein. I say "important" because of her gift for bringing history alive for the YA (and adult) reader in her tales of the courage of young women during WWII.Rose is an American teenager, barely out of school, who leaves small town Pennsylvania ...
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