Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

You can't judge a book by the cover but the first paragraph should have been a clue and I ignored it. My bad. The book is advertised as historical fiction but it's really more of a historical romance, which is fine if that's what you intend to read. The book seriously needs an editor. As the author states, “I'm not a pilot”, and that soon becomes obvious. Nor has the author been in aerial combat. If you are going to write about something of which you have no experience then you'd best do some amazing research. In describing the aircraft the central character was assigned to fly it was described as “dilapidated”, followed in the next sentence as being better than new. Well, what was it? I think the author confused antiquated with dilapidated. Hello editor? Anybody home? There were frequently modern American colloquial phrases used in dialog and descriptions that completely negate the time period and Russian locale. Don't read this book expecting to learn anything of substance about the 588th. A simple google search for “night witches WWII “ will bring up a Vanity Fair article which seems to be the basis for the book. The book's description of the training, flying and combat will not “put you there” and actually casts doubt upon the entire “historical” aspect of the book. I gave it two stars because I'm not a harsh person but this is no “Circling the Sun”.