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Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
5.0

This book is beautiful and shocking and clever. It will grip you from it's very first line. ("I am a coward.") It is set during World War II in Britain and is about a wartime relationship, but not a romance. It's a love story, but one about platonic love between two friends, not firework-y romantic love. Agape, not eros.

It is well-written, relentlessly researched (but in a pleasant way), and rigorouse well-plotted.

It is a rare gem of a book; one to be treasured.

Highest possible recommendation. (As in: I have just sent it as a gift to my best friend in the world.)