Rose Under Fire
Ratings9
Average rating4.1
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Ratings9
Average rating4.1
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
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4 primary booksCode Name Verity is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Elizabeth Wein.
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This isn't nearly as heart wrenching as Code Name Verity, but I did cry a few times. I feel like I need to reread both books to get how inter-woven they are. (I didn't even remember one character in this from CNV until I read one of the reviews here and it made me go “Oh! Right!”.) Elizabeth Wein really knows how to tell a story.
After Code Name Verity's deftly plotted tale, I expected more from Elizabeth Wein. The tale of a young American woman who gets a job piloting for Britain's Air Transport Auxiliary and ends up captured by the Nazis, enjoying thier hospitality at Ravensbruck, comes across as preachy and nothing more than a vehicle for the retelling of Nazi atrocities.
A very powerful book. 4.5 stars rounded up.
The main characters are fictional, but most of the places and events depicted are/were real.
A good part of the book is set in the Ravensbrück women's concentration camp. It was a terrible place. Roughly 150,000 women passed through it. Some survived. You could always depend on the Nazis to be even more horrible than most can imagine.
I loved Code Name Verity. I adored Rose Under Fire.
While both books are strongly stories of friendship, I feel that the situations Rose finds herself in makes for several different, unique, and strong relationships. Simply put, this book is found family at its finest.
Reading was emotional, even the moments we know are inevitable. The writing itself, I feel, surpasses Verity. There is so much depth and personality to the supporting characters that they end up taking center stage. Knowing that the things Rose experiences and what her friends have gone through are based on true events makes the pages even more riveting.
It seems as though a majority of the fictional WWII era books are forbidden romances or on the front lines of battle. It's so refreshing to see one purely about love in the rawest sense of the word. Not romance. A realistic picture of hope and justice is also painted. All in all, Rose Under Fire is a beautiful tribute to the real life ‘Rabbits'.
“Tell the world.”
