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A review by jdgcreates
The Aviator's Wife by Melanie Benjamin
2.0
I was interested in this novel as a work of historical fiction about people I knew next to nothing about: Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow. Sadly the narrator's voice was old and gravely sounding which did not properly convey her early, younger years with Charles--it was incongruous and grating.
Meanwhile, both Anne and Charles were too much products of their times in history, at least in the 4 sections I listened to. While courting her, Charles wanted to be sure she had ambition before he married her and asked her what she really wanted to do in life and she said she wanted to write one really good book. I thought, "hey, he cares about you and your dreams, that's fabulous!" Alas, as soon as the morning after their wedding his true colors began to show and those colors were "me, me, and me." Instead of encouraging her to follow her literary dreams, he demanded breakfast and taught her to fly. She acquiesced in both cases, and also lived without more than a few moments of tenderness, affection, or let's face it, love, because he just wasn't that kind of man. He was a selfish prick in my opinion, and not one that I cared to experience ruining the rest of her life.
Meanwhile, both Anne and Charles were too much products of their times in history, at least in the 4 sections I listened to. While courting her, Charles wanted to be sure she had ambition before he married her and asked her what she really wanted to do in life and she said she wanted to write one really good book. I thought, "hey, he cares about you and your dreams, that's fabulous!" Alas, as soon as the morning after their wedding his true colors began to show and those colors were "me, me, and me." Instead of encouraging her to follow her literary dreams, he demanded breakfast and taught her to fly. She acquiesced in both cases, and also lived without more than a few moments of tenderness, affection, or let's face it, love, because he just wasn't that kind of man. He was a selfish prick in my opinion, and not one that I cared to experience ruining the rest of her life.