Elizabeth's Reviews > Flygirl

A fun read. I got very caught up in it about halfway through, especially during Ida Mae’s WASP training. The plot suffers a bit from lack of drive - nothing really connects one flight to another. And also, it ended rather abruptly, and without proper closure. But the characters are distinct and engaging, and the portrait of a typical WASP - a pretty fascinating subject by any account - is made even more intriguing by the added tension of black Ida Mae’s having to pretend to be a white girl in the 1940s south in order to keep her job. (In truth, I found the constant highwire play-acting of her charade to be nearly as nerve-racking as that of a Resistance spy in Nazi-occupied France.)