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... to agree with the reviewer that said it read like "Nancy Drew joins the Resistance"
I have to agree with the reviewer that said it read like "Nancy Drew joins the Resistance". I can't fathom how this book is receiving 5 star reviews.I didn't think that Isabelle came across as brave, just a ridiculous girl. The characters all felt flat to me. I just can't see how leaders of the Resistance would put this 19 year old girl that they barely knew in charge of leading a group of pilots across frigid mountaintops. For her to go from her pampered resistance to outperforming bomber pilots doing a cross mountain trek under grueling conditions was preposterous . It just seems to me that people that are military pilots would have more physical training than to be outdone in endurance by a 19 year old book shop clerk who did absolutely no preparation training. I thought it read like a soap opera version of a Holocaust story, which deserves better.
