Book Review: Fly Safe

 

Fly Safe

Vicki Cody 

She Writes Press

August.03.2021

I was sent a complimentary copy of Fly Safe by Vicki Cody through She Writes Press in exchange for my honest review which is as follows:

Fly Safe by Vicki Cody is a follow up memoir to her first book Army a wives, but it can easily be read as a stand alone as well.

Vicki Cody’s Husband who was the commander of an elite Apache helicopter battalion is deployed to Saudi Arabia in August of 1990 after Iraq invaded Kuwait starting the First Gulf War.

In a time before Cell Phones, FaceTime and Social Media, Vicki and her husband would spend the next nine months communicating mainly through letters.

Fly Safe will give the reader a very raw look at what loved ones at home went through when a spouse or family member was deployed.  A time before the Internet and Cell Phones allowed for instant connection even from across the globe.  She does not only highlight the good, but she openly talks about the stress, loneliness and sleepless nights as well as the humor, the joy and resilience.

In the meantime we get a glimpse into what is happening in history through Dick’s letters to Vicki.   

Fly Safe is a book that is filled with bravery, humor, heart, as well as sadness, and pain, it is a book I would highly recommend to anyone who wants to understand more about what deployment is like both for the deployed and their family.

I give Fly Safe five out of five stars!

Happy Reading!