Book Review for Come Fly with Me by Camille Di Maio

 

Come Fly with Me  by Camille Di Maio

Published: February 18, 2025 by Lake Union Publishing

Genre:  Historical Fiction

 

Taken from Goodreads:  It’s 1962, the dawn of the jet-set era. Hope takes flight for two Pan Am stewardesses navigating an adventurous new life in a novel about love, friendship, and escape by the bestselling author of The Memory of Us and Until We Meet.

Welcome to a glamorous gateway to the jet age.

Judy Goodman and Beverly Caldwell have different reasons for putting continents and oceans between themselves and their disparate pasts, but they have the same desire—to earn a coveted position on an elite team of stewardesses for Pan American Airlines. For Judy, running away from an oppressive marriage in small-town Pennsylvania is a risk she must take. And for Beverly, leaving behind the gilded cage of New York society will allow her to pursue a future of her own making.

Embracing the culture, etiquette, and strict rules of a thrilling and unpredictable new world above the clouds, Judy and Beverly are bound for faraway destinations and opportunities that other women dare only to dream about. But as they build a deep friendship, encounter love and danger, and discover what’s truly important, Judy and Beverly must also confront the secrets that could change their lives all over again—and forever.

 

My Thoughts:  Becoming a Pan Am stewardess is a dream come true for Judy and Beverly.  For their own reasons they want to start a new adventure.  I love this adventure.  The training they had, the friendships that developed, and the lives that they lived brought the characters to life.  

The friendships are what I enjoyed most in this book.   Beverly and Judy had a true friendship.  They shared their secrets, dreams, and hopes.  Whether they were stationed together, flying together, or living together or not, their friendships were the most important thing in their lives.   Without each other, they may not have succeeded as they did. 

The ending…heartbreaking.   I gasped and had tears.  I know it was part of history, part of the Pan Am History but it was still heartbreaking.

Thank you Lake Union Publishing for a copy of the book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

 

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Meet Camille DiMaio (taken from her website):  Camille left an award-winning real estate career in San Antonio to become a full-time writer. Along with her husband of twenty-seven years, she enjoys raising their four children. She has a bucket list that is never-ending, and uses her adventures to inspire her writing. She’s lived in Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California, and spends enough time in Hawai’i and Maine to feel like a local. She’s traveled to four continents (so far), and met Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II. She just about fainted when she had a chance to meet her musical idol, Paul McCartney, too.

Camille studied political science in college, but found working on actual campaigns much more fun. She overdoses on goodies at farmers markets (justifying them by her support for local bakeries) and belts out Broadway tunes whenever the moment strikes. There’s almost nothing she wouldn’t try, so long as it doesn’t involve heights, roller skates, or anything illegal.

She is an Amazon Bestselling author as well as a Romance Writers of America Honor Roll Inductee. Her books have won: The Beverly Hills Book Award, the Golden Quill, and been a Holt Medallion finalist several times over. They have been translated into French, Hungarian, German, Estonian, and Persian.