Book Review on, Sapphire Skies by Belinda Alexandra I borrowed this book from the library. Setting, Moscow 1937 – Russia 2000 I'm still so stunned and over awed, over this book. Getting back into my comfort zone with a historical fiction, I was surrounded by how shocking and revealing this book had become. Most of the story revolves around Natasha and her life, captured by the cruel Stalin at the age of 14, showered her with gifts, the family house… Raided, tossed out and her father, taken away. Her life and passion for flying, literally, cost her.....her life, as years later her plane crashed. She was then captured in another sense and was sent to concentration camp after concentration camp, where, even animals were treated better than people. I applaud the author, it must have taken a painstakingly amount of hard work to do research into this terror of a subject, that is all too real for some. I found this very, extremely facinating and I learnt alot from it. I also highly praise what the author says in the “authors notes” – where she has aimed to make Russian words and names as easy on the eye and tongue. This book comes highly recommended by me and would suit all historical fictional readers, especially those who are interested in Moscow, Russia, who likes world war II fighter plane era, who likes war type books, and who likes suspenseful reads. I special and tremendous “thank you” goes to Ellen Read who recommended me this book in the first place, so much so, that this one will be ending up on my You Tube channel and the author has made it easy for me, so I can pronounce the names.
