While it took awhile to get all the characters introduced and in the same place, this was a great story of something that happened during WWII and most people might not know about. I love stories with strong female characters that fight for what they want. Quite a few sad points, but that's to be expected in a book about a war. Definitely recommend, great story!

This review is based on an ARC from NetGalley, courtesy of the publisher. All opinions are my own.

I loved this book!!!!!! Danielle Steele is one of my favorite authors & this book is an amazing look into World War Two and the amazing nurses who did their part. I really loved how Ms Steele didn't let the focus on the War take away from her characters and their stories. I've found in most fiction book centered during a war time that the author overshadows the story with the wartime. I was so happy to see that Ms Steele did not do that. This is an enjoyable and amazing book and I highly recommend it.

This book reminds me of the movie Pearl Harbor.🤷🏻‍♀️
Audrey, Lizzie both have parents who have set their life plans in motion for them. While the war is going on they enlist as nurses. To conquer and help out as needed with several other ladies…

Danielle Steel's latest is set in WWII focusing on 6 women who serve as flying nurses. If you like Danielle Steel you'll enjoy this one. I think it might have been more effective to focus on fewer women and go more in depth for each but what works about the large cast is that with 6 nurses and their extended networks you leave with some sense of how so many families were deeply affected by the war.

As always with Steel, her novels are a nice way to spend a day/weekend in a different world. Her regular readers will enjoy this visit to the Flying Nurses of WWII.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the advanced copy of Danielle Steel's Flying Angels. This book was such a treat! If you are a fan of historical fiction, this will be right up your alley. The story follows the lives of a group of young women from different backgrounds whose lives intersect when they join a military nursing unit. I had no idea that there were women in the battle zones of WW2 saving lives! The author does a great job of giving the reader just enough backstory on each character so that you feel vested in all of their lives.

Always thrilled to read a new Danielle Steel novel! I especially love when she writes historical fiction. Love this story of women who join the army as nurses and become members of the medical air evacuation team. Heartbreak, love, friendship and victory. Danielle Steel always is able to make me cry and also make me cheer! Cant wait until her next novel.

I have been a Danielle Steel fan for years so I was super thankful to be approved to read her newest, Flying Angels.

This is a historical fiction that tells the story of women nurses during World War 2 that worked on a medical air evacuation team. I loved learning about their job, as this was one I hadn’t heard of. Books like this make me do my own research too because I enjoy seeing how many details in the book are based on fact and what was the author’s imagination.

I think this was a typical Danielle Steel. You root for the women and their friendships and relationships. As usual, she left me in tears and I was a little sad how some of the character’s storyline was written out. There are quite a few characters in this and I don’t think we get a lot of depth or character development. I also found myself getting a little confused with their names. There’s an Alex, Audrey, Louise, and Lizzie and their backgrounds kind of ran together at times. However, I still found this to be a quick and enjoyable read.

If you’re looking for a new historical fiction and want to read about some badass women, I encourage you to pick this one up.

Danielle Steel has written a book that kept me up late at night reading.
Flying Angels is a story about a group of four women who are nurses that join the military during WWll. They are sent to Europe to help treat the injured soldiers and transport them from the frontlines to the hospitals for care. They bond perfectly and while there they have two English nurses join their group. The women are a filled with so much drive and care that they pass to each other when things get tough for them.
The book is filled with so much emotion as I read the things these amazing women had to do to fulfill the mission they are on in Europe to do.
The compassion, bravery, skill, honesty along with fearlessness came thru so perfectly. The bond these women had with each other would make anyone proud to know them.
Ms. Steele again has written a book that was so hard to put down. I will think of these brave women long after finishing this book.
Thank you NetGalley, Danielle Steel and Random House Publishing Group for the copy of Flying Angels. This is my personal review.

Sometimes I need to sink into a good story where I know the right side will win. Flying Angels by Steel is just such a book. It follows the story of several women who, as nurses, are dispatched to England to fly dangerous missions in order to render medical care. There are losses in the book, but also war time romances, which I adore. WWII was such a microcosm of,change and people living for the moment because many didn’t see the next day. It’s classic DS with a myriad of emotions and might just leave you tearful.

The story begins in 1939, when war has broken out in Europe while America tries to stay out of it. Audrey Parker’s mother has a debilitating disease so she becomes a nurse with the idea of caring for her. Hers is the first story of six young female nurses who enlist to assist in the war effort, eventually all working together in the Medical Air Evacuation Transport unit, a perilous job to say the least. Six women from various backgrounds, English aristocracy (Pru), London’ East End (Emma), Boston society (Lizzie), NYC society (Alex), a black from North Carolina (Louise) and Audrey (from Baltimore) form friendships amidst the horrors of bringing the wounded to hospitals in England as well as the personal heartaches of using loved ones in the battles in Europe and the Pacific. I have never read anything by Danielle Steel so when the opportunity to read a book by her in a category that I normally enjoy (historical fiction), I jumped at the chance. While the story was good and the topic of nurses in WWII enticing, the writing itself was pretty simplistic. The word that comes to mind after finishing the book is schmaltzy, but an enjoyable read nonetheless. My thanks to Delacorte Press and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for my review.

Pearl Harbor has quickly become one of my favorite time periods to read about. Steel does not disappoint with this one. I will say, it took me a few hot minutes to keep all the gals straight but once I had them set, I throughly enjoyed this one!

What a wonderful war story about the Flying Angels (the nurses who flew in airplanes to bring the wounded back to the hospitals. The story had wonderful characters that you felt you knew, and you cried when some of them or their families died. There was lots of comradery and friendship and finally for some - love. It was a horrible time that we have to hope never happens again.
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The Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron and the wonderful nurses (and others) who served in it are the subject of this latest entry from Steele. It follows the paths of six young women who came from diverse backgrounds to serve the troops during WWII. Each has a different reason for joining, each has a different story to tell. If I have a quibble (and it's a minor one), it's that there are too many characters, thus spreading the story too lightly across them. No matter, its still emotional and you will root for them. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC. This is different from the usual Steel offering in tone and plotting but it's a good read her fans will relish.

As a nurse, I really enjoyed reading Flying Angels by Danielle Steel. Of course, as a long time Danielle Steel fan, it was even better. Excellent read! #FlyingAngels #NetGalley

This was a good one, really enjoyed reading about the woman and what they went through as nurses, etc during the war.

Well done.

Fantastic historical novel. Not your usual Danielle Steele. Absolutely loved this book! Thanks to publisher for allowing me access to this book.

This is the story of nurses who joined the air rescue crews during WW2. They were brave and strong. They were human. They had lives before this.

Mercy Nurses

An extraordinary book. I didn't know one book could hold so many different emotions. Oh what a story. Friendship, Love, Tragedy, Loss, Romance, and Admiration were all in these pages and more. This is a story of brave nurses serving in the most dangerous conditions witnessing the most horrific wounds and doing it day in and day out sometimes working days and nights.

Each nurse's story is told, their family, why they became a nurse, what prompted them to sign up for the Air Force's Medical Air Evacuation Squadron and fly into enemy territory to rescue injured soldiers and transport them back to hospitals. Their stories are told before and immediately after the war when they returned to their worlds.

It is a story of a fierce friendship between the nurses and a selfless comradery that extended beyond social status, nationality, and color. They were like family and stuck together through the good times and the worst times. They had a friendship that would last the ages. Some of them would make it through the war and some would be lost.

Some found romance, through their work together with the male soldiers they worked with and some through patients and other's through tragedy. There are some happy times as well as some very sad times in the story. I can assure you a box of tissue will be needed.

It is a beautifully written story with much history of the Medical Air Evacuation Squadron and the nurses and corpsmen that flew in it. A story I had never heard before. I didn't know such a squadron had ever existed, but I am proud of the nurses that served during the war and all the good they did while putting their lives on the line for our country. The 801st Medical Air Evacuation Squadron was a United States Army Air Force unit that provided aeromedical evacuation and support services to front line units in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Although the story is fiction, the Air Evacuation Squadron was a true unit of the Air Force during WWII.

My daughter is a huge fan of this author and reads all of her books. I thought I would give this one a try and I am so glad I made that decision. It was one of those books you can't stop reading but you don't want it to end. I enjoyed reading it and I know that you will enjoy it as well.

Thanks to Danielle Steele for writing it, Random House for publishing it and NetGalley for making it available for me to read.

Loved reading the engaging and enthralling story about women risking their lives to save wounded soldiers. Lizzie, Audrey, Pru, Alex, Emma, and Louise all work together as nurses in the Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron, become close friends, and are supportive of each other. Read the highly recommended and wonderfully written story about the Flying Angels.
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This is a remarkable book of historical fiction that I definitely enjoyed. It centers around 6 brave women from different backgrounds who all made the decision to join the medical evacuation unit of the Army Air Forces, all for different reasons.

I’d never read about this unit before, so I found the story to be interesting and emotional. If even half of it is bound in truth, I can’t imagine the bravery these women lived on a daily basis. It really made our day to day “struggles “ seem insignificant in comparison.

Thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to read and review this book, but my opinions are my own.