juniperd 's review for:

The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin

2.0

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i have wavered between 2- and 3-stars...so i guess it's a 2.5-star read. i didn't love it and i didn't hate it but i am bummed as i feel a crap-ton of potential was lost...or edited out? i found the afterword more personal and interesting that the novel and this book has made me want to find great biographies of anne morrow lindbergh and charles lindbergh. all the way through i felt anne's voice (our narrator) was too detached. i held faith that benjamin had done this for a reason...but it is not hugely evident to me. for a woman (morrow) who was, apparently, sensitive, smart, passionate and brave...these traits, while observed upon in the novel, were rarely noted in the character's voice. i tried to very much keep in mind the era this story covers, where the lives and expectations for women were very different than today...but morrow is built up as unconventional for the times by the author.