** spoiler alert ** 
 I have put off reviewing Code Name Verity for long enough because it is a book so close to my heart, I didn't know I had it in me to review it. But it is time. 
 This book is filled with feelings so strong, testaments to the friendship of Queenie and Maddie so beautiful and an atmosphere so vivid that I was immediately sucked into this book and was spit out only by a wake up call of life. 
 I did a double-take and then had a crying jag at "Kiss me, Hardy! Kiss me, quick!" Because I thought Julie was just happy to find Maddie in the vicinity but oh boy was I wrong but it suddenly made so much sense. This book reminded of a thing I read once that had apparently been left written on a wall of a Jewish concentration camp during WW2 that said "If there is a God, he shall have to ask for my forgiveness." 
 Makes one certainly wonder. 
 Other than that, the book was absolutely wonderful. A ride from start to finish. AND CAN SOMEONE PLS MENTION VON LINDEN?? HELLO??? He's my secret spirit animal.