Silver Wings, Santiago Blue [Mass Market Paperback]

Janet Dailey (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1994

A Simon & Schuster eBook

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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About the Author

Janet Dailey is the author of scores of popular and uniquely American novels, including such bestsellers as Scrooge Wore Spurs, A Capital Holiday, The Glory Game, The Pride of Hannah Wade, and the phenomenal Calder saga, including the newest title in the series, Shifting Calder Wind. Her romantic fiction has also been featured in a story anthology, The Only Thing Better Than Chocolate. Since her first novel was published in 1975, Janet Dailey has become the bestselling female author in America, with more than 300,000,000 copies of her books in print. Her books have been published in seventeen languages and are sold in ninety countries. Janet Dailey's careful research and her intimate knowledge of America have made her one of the best-loved authors in the country and around the world.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Pocket (April 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671875159
• ISBN-13: 978-0671875152
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,086,635 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great for women's history classes, December 5, 2007

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Virginia Shultz-charette "chloeanna" (winsted, ct United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silver Wings, Santiago Blue (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was released in the 1980's, not long after the record of women Wasp's was released in the 1970's. Actually there isn't much out there about these amazing women pilots even in 2007. There is a web-site that is slowly getting underway for women re-enactors of WWII. My question would be who would want to reenact what these women did? They were given an assortment of beat-up planes to haul targets for new male recruits to shoot at. They also transported new planes to the airfields, including the new type of plane-the jet. By the end of the war there were 38 female casualties whose bodies were shipped home at their families expense. No military honors, no mention at all. Certainly no grateful nation since the records were sealed until the women's lib movement of the '70's forced them open.
Another reviewer complained that the book was dry, then complained that there were not enough descriptions of planes. I personally can't imagine anything drier than descriptions of planes. No romance, not true - although certainly not much in the way of sex scenes which the other reviewer lamented. Most romances in the 1980's were not explicit and today many are still not. She also complained that there was not enough description of clothes. I didn't find that to be true and their uniforms were certainly described in detail.

If newly published today, this would certainly be more like a "relationship" novel since the relationships between these women were explored - not unlike the prolific novels of Debbie Macomber. When my college class discusses WWII in two more days I will be recommending this book to many of my students.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was expecting, December 9, 2004

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S. Soltoff "Stacey Soltoff" (Northern VA, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Silver Wings, Santiago Blue (Mass Market Paperback)

Having read nothing else of Janet Dailey's, I'm not sure whether this book is typical of her work or typical of the romance genre at the time it was written. I think this book would have worked better as a historical novel than the romance novel it was marketed as. It doesn't fit many of the conventions we've come to expect.

I loved that Ms. Dailey told the story of women service pilots who have received far too little recognition and respect for their work ferrying military planes during WWII, but as a romance novel this book fell flat. Her writing style kept us distanced from the characters, she focused on too many characters, and she never spent enough time immersing us in the setting that I could really feel like I was in the 1940s. The introduction she used to set us up with the history of flying was interesting, but dry and technical history. It did not bode well for the fictional story she was telling and did very little to draw me in. Ms. Dailey would name off planes rather than describe what they looked like. I never had more than a vague image of what the characters wore and how they dressed. And the book didn't even have spectacular sex scenes to make up for what else it lacked. The sex scenes were very vague and self-conscious.

I'm glad to see that she didn't make up a happy ending for all involved (which would have been far less believable considering the number of characters she followed and the losses we suffered during the war). I kind of like that not everyone actually got a Happy Ever After, and yet that's not what I'm looking for when I pick up a romance novel.