I quite enjoyed this book. I read Code Name Verity years ago and absolutely loved it, then recently discovered that there are other books in the series.

The story was a bit slow to get going, but I enjoyed it as it went on. It was interesting meeting (or remeeting) the different characters and getting to know them. I liked the setting.

I was aware of reading a black character written by a white author, however after reading the author’s note, she took care in getting help and advice on this issue and I think it worked well. There were some parts of it that annoyed me, being from Scotland as they weren’t accurate and I didn’t find it fair to depict some of the children in the way that they were.

Overall, great story, very sad. I was not expecting that ending, rather depressing but good story.

I also now want to go back and reread Code Name Verity yo.