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I finished listening to Sisters in Arms by Kaia Alderson, narrated by Shayna Small--historical fiction about the first black WAC unit in WWII. I love fiction about women involved in the war effort in WWII, so I'd been looking forward to this book and I really wanted to love it. I didn't.
I'm not sure exactly what was wrong with it--why it seemed so boring and pedestrian when it should have been fascinating and powerful. The main characters are supposed to be two strong women but both were generally insipid and prone to fainting in the arms of a man (at least twice apiece), which I found particularly annoying.
Some people just seem to disappear from the story--the men accompanying some of the WACs when an accident occurred, the father of one of the protagonists. Poof!
Instances of prejudice, which were many, somehow lacked emotional power, more melodrama than drama.
After getting through the book, I had hoped for an author's note on what was historically accurate and what was invention, or perhaps a mention of sources on which the story was based, but there's nothing.
Major disappointment.
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