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A review by evaseyler
Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz
4.0
I have been not-so-patiently waiting to read this book for what seems years, and it did not disappoint. I love airplanes and WWII stories and badass girls and this has all three. The majority of the characters are also real people, which I also love in a book.
But I think one of my very favourite threads in the story was Pasha's friendship with the fellow soldier who wanted to be a priest. Their worldviews are so different in many ways, yet they both are gentle souls who love beauty and would rather be doing anything else besides fighting.
Probably irrelevant, but also true: The rabid Rose Under Fire fangirl in me loved getting a clearer glimpse into the kind of world Irina came from, and why she couldn't ever go back after Ravensbrück.
But I think one of my very favourite threads in the story was Pasha's friendship with the fellow soldier who wanted to be a priest. Their worldviews are so different in many ways, yet they both are gentle souls who love beauty and would rather be doing anything else besides fighting.
Probably irrelevant, but also true: The rabid Rose Under Fire fangirl in me loved getting a clearer glimpse into the kind of world Irina came from, and why she couldn't ever go back after Ravensbrück.