So now I've read it and I will babble nonsensically about it.
desperately sick of Books About Boys
People who are desperately sick of war books about boys were women are only every allowed to be forlorn love interests with no agency of their own which really was not how it worked.
I LOVED that basically every character in this was a woman except when it made absolutely no historical sense for the character to be woman. But Julie and Maddie and Maddie's pilot mentor and Engel and most of the French resistance (women of all ages, there!) and that it wasn't missing mothers but dead fathers and how Maddie's reactions to being shot at/bombed were perfectly normal and sane and it was okay to cry in those situations and this is a great book that everyone should read. When they're old enough. I'm not sure I was old enough (the first part was really hard to read).
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Date: 2012-05-28 01:13 am (UTC)desperately sick of Books About Boys
People who are desperately sick of war books about boys were women are only every allowed to be forlorn love interests with no agency of their own which really was not how it worked.
I LOVED that basically every character in this was a woman except when it made absolutely no historical sense for the character to be woman. But Julie and Maddie and Maddie's pilot mentor and Engel and most of the French resistance (women of all ages, there!) and that it wasn't missing mothers but dead fathers and how Maddie's reactions to being shot at/bombed were perfectly normal and sane and it was okay to cry in those situations and this is a great book that everyone should read. When they're old enough. I'm not sure I was old enough (the first part was really hard to read).