Nick's Book of the Month – September 2013

My Book of the Month for September 2013 is Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein.

This is the kind of book you can't write a summary for, or it'll just be spoiler after spoiler. So here's the blurb:

"Oct. 11th, 1943–A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.

When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.

As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?

A Michael L. Printz Award Honor book that was called "a fiendishly-plotted mind game of a novel" in The New York Times, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other."

There is one word that adequately sums up this book: MIND-BLOWING.

It's just so awesome. It pulls you in and doesn't let you go. Plot twist after plot twist, it never gets old! I can't tell you more without spoilers, I just have to tell you to READ THIS BOOK!! READ IT LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It has a companion book Rose Under Fire, which those lucky people in the UK got already in June. It comes out in the US on September 10 (8 days!!!) OMG I can't wait! :D

– Nick