Plein Ciel vs Zoya: Which Should You Read?

Plein Ciel Danielle Steel · 1988 ★★★★☆ 4.0 457 pages · ≈ 8 h 28 m · Moderate

“The road to O'Malley's Airport was a long, dusty thin trail that seemed to drift first left, then right, and loop lazily around the cornfields.”

Wings is the story of a young woman who fights all the odds to fulfil her dreams. From her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, Cassie O'Malley would look at the planes shimmering in the moonlight and feel the…

Zoya Danielle Steel · 1980 ★★★★☆ 4.1 448 pages · ≈ 8 h 18 m · Moderate

“Zoya closed her eyes again as the troika flew across the icy ground, the soft mist of snow leaving tiny damp kisses on her cheeks, and turning her eyelashes to lace as she listened to the horses' bells dancing in her ears like music.”

Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and World War I Europe, Zoya, young cousin to the Tsar, flees St. Petersburg to Paris to find safety. Her entire world forever changed, she faces hard times and joins the…