Although I love WWII as a frame, (I read a lot of WWII memoirs), I could hardly stand this book because of the stream-of-consciousness journal entry style of writing. I don't understand how this is so popular. It's confusing, and PUTTING SENTENCES IN CAPS HERE AND THERE DOES NOT COMPENSATE FOR LACK OF GOOD DESCRIPTIONS. The author seems to think that it does. 
 I tried go along with this: Verity's a plucky girl who is writing her confessions for the Nazis--as she puts it every last detail. And when she has a break from that she writes a journal for herself. It just bothers me that when she writes that her face was held in a basin of ice water until she passed out, she does it in parenthesis, like it's not important. 
 Part 2 is Verity's friend, Maddie, writing her thoughts down. I was ready to suspend my disbelief for the exciting plot that was sure to be...but it was too annoying for me.