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The Woman Who Rode the Wind

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I found this novel cute and entertaining but a bit amateurish. I can see the Young Adult crowd enjoying it. It starts in France during 1901 and a a very rich man proposes a contest and whomever can fly around the Eiffel tower wins big money. The reader is then introduced to a variety of characters, Mary Ann, an innocent naive American girl, Harding, a drunk newspaper reporter, Alain, dashing and rebellious aviator, and of course a villain, a German that wreaks havoc and destruction. There are others of course, rich and poor and many a love triangle and broken heart ensues. I would have liked more information on the "flying machines." I simply kept visualizing bicycles with balloons somehow attached to them and some piano wire mixed in there somehow.. was unclear to me how these machines were made and operated. All in all, the book is good but not something I would read again.. a bit too cutesy for me. I did enjoy the look at early aviation. I would like to add that majority of novels are too descriptive, whereas this one could use a bit more. It lacks descriptive details, such as what people look like. Reader has to fill in the blanks a bit.