There's a fair amount of confusion on the protagonist's part, which I think most of us can relate to, but it does start to become a little overwrought after a point. We've read those before, though probably not too many based in a women's-only unit of the military during a world war. The first part of the romance is essentially a coming out story. There's a lot of exposition in this book, and it can sometimes come across as a little dry because of that fact, but that information provided crucial context it made for a more realistic look at life on the ground from a woman's point-of-view, which was well worth the price of admission. It's a slice of life, an examination of day-to-day living in the WAC and, while this is in many ways a romance novel, it's also historical fiction, and it takes that part seriously. We never looked at what life was really like for women in the 1940s. When I was taking my history classes in college and we covered WWII, we briefly looked at the WASPs, WACs, and WAVEs as a small, interesting footnote before moving on to the battles, political issues, ideology, and all the rest.
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