Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

          This book was interesting to me because it wasn't typical.  It takes place during world war two, and one of the main characters end s up being captured b the Gestapo.  The introduction started off by the narrator saying she was a coward, which contradicts the typical main character hero.  She is a British spy prisoner to the Gestapo, and the story shows what she writes to them as her  confession chosen opposing being tortured and executed.  She writes everything she knows everyday about the one topic her capturers give her: British secret missions.  What drew me in about this story is that I almost thought the narrator, whose code name is Verity, was insane.  I thought this while reading because she is spilling her guts to the German and giving them all the information she can, while she herself says that she will be shot no matter if she says a word or if she refuses.  While Verity explains how she got to be where she is now, she ends up telling her best friend Maddie's story rather than her own.  Maddie was a girl who loved planes, and her awe drove her to learn to fly.  She was the pilot flying Verity on her mission to France.  While on their way, the two friends crash landed and while Maddie somehow got left, Verity was captured by the German. 

           Verity tells her friend's story and how they met.  I learned to know the characters as Maddie being a unique girl who although shy at times wasn't afraid to be herself, and chased her dreams, and Verity as someone who actually has a lot of loyalty to her loved ones.  She is young, attractive, and very intelligent, not afraid.  The two are unlikely friends, definitely reinforcing the "opposites attract" theory.
          However, I learned that Maddie had been killed during the crash landing of the plane, and I wondered if Verity going on about her friend was her way of denial.  But as the story went on, I realized that there was a method to Verity's madness.  Verity tells the Gestapo next how she even got to France in the first place, how she was a spy. 
           The book was split into two parts and the second was told by Maddie's point of view and tells what happened in the plane. She explains how the plane crashed, how she was left there, and how Verity tried to escape.