Helpful Score: 1
Steel has taken a fascinating chapter in WWII and managed to pulp it down to her usual level. She follows the lives and fortunes of six young women (each a perfect by-the-numbers cliché) serving in Britain's Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron, serving as nurses to critically wounded soldiers being evacuated from combat zones.
From this rich potential, she has served up a bland porridge with all the emotional impact of a pot roast recipe. Steel tells, never shows, as the characters go through predictable by-the-numbers events of young women leaving their families, forming new friendships, and finding romance.
It remains a mystery of the ages how she has managed to get over 140 novels published, let alone see the majority of them shoot to the tops of the best-seller lists.
From this rich potential, she has served up a bland porridge with all the emotional impact of a pot roast recipe. Steel tells, never shows, as the characters go through predictable by-the-numbers events of young women leaving their families, forming new friendships, and finding romance.
It remains a mystery of the ages how she has managed to get over 140 novels published, let alone see the majority of them shoot to the tops of the best-seller lists.
