Completed: 6/17/2021
Recommendation: Not recommended
Recommended By: Nobody
Review:
This book is well written with the sole exception of the repeated use of "as best as she could" which sounds completely wrong to my ear and drew me up short each time I heard it (or a variant of that). The characters are rich and well developed. The story is complex and engrossing. The plots and sub-plots are examined and have good interplay. The sexual and physical abuse was more than I could take. It seems like every book has to have severe loss and this book had that as well. I thought it was going to be an exciting book about the adventures of female pilots. I also thought it was a historical novel (based on some true story). It was neither. I cannot recommend it.
A fantastic insight, however was, "One thing I learned is that you don't just love a person, you love a vision of your life with them." I have had a hard time understanding why people point out that they love someone when that person intentionally hurts them. What difference does it make if you love them when that person is making your life miserable? A woman who is beaten does not press charges because she loves her husband. A man whose wife constantly cheats on him cites his love for her as a reason not to leave. It made no sense to me. If, however, abandoning that person also means abandoning the vision of this future life you had with them--well, that is understandable. For me, that would occur when the victimization started, I think. That idealized vision of a future life would crumple under the reality. I can imagine, however, that for some people it would not and the reason those people would cite would be that they do not want to abandon that future life they had envisioned. Ah, I get it. Great insight from Shipstead.
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