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Karen
I wondered that, too. It's almost as if it's there in a coded way, so that if you want them to be lovers you can read it that way (I certainly did), and if you don't want to you can ignore the hints. I'm not sure if the author intended those hints to be there, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who read it that way.
Kacey
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Debie
I didn't think so. I think they were just two very strong women that bonded by their situation of trying to not only serve their country in an area that was, for the most part, a man's possition, but also trying to survive the war and all the dangers itself. I think if it was written with two male characters you wouldn't feel that way. The physical and emotional stuff you go through in war can intimately bond people who have gone through it together... I would think especially women who were in the minority.
Wanda Baxter
Close, intimate friendship is what I read. Best friends, they were described as, and I took them as that. I think we all might have a tendency to assume their friendship is more - or has to be more - because this kind of very close friendship (someone you would kill for, say), would require a 'deeper' love than friendship.
I read their friendship as what I think it was intended as: best friends in a brutal scenario - the kind that makes you more honest with feeling and love because death looms. literally. Also, is there a tendency to not be able to imagine two feminine women in wartime?
I admit I occasionally wondered where the story was going with them - they might have been revealed to be more than best friends, but they weren't.
I really value the depth of real, female friendship that this book is about. You can love someone and not be their lover.
Did Kittyhawk love Verity more and in a romantic way (i.e. a one-way love story, maybe?) Maybe. But that's not really what the story was about.
I read their friendship as what I think it was intended as: best friends in a brutal scenario - the kind that makes you more honest with feeling and love because death looms. literally. Also, is there a tendency to not be able to imagine two feminine women in wartime?
I admit I occasionally wondered where the story was going with them - they might have been revealed to be more than best friends, but they weren't.
I really value the depth of real, female friendship that this book is about. You can love someone and not be their lover.
Did Kittyhawk love Verity more and in a romantic way (i.e. a one-way love story, maybe?) Maybe. But that's not really what the story was about.
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