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Title: Isaac's Storm wannabe
Review: I hate books like this. The author didn't have enough faith in her story-telling ability to simply tell a great story instead of pretending that it was worse than it was. It was a terrible hurricane, yes. It was not, however, the worst hurricane ever. The reader can tell that she did some research on hurricanes in general, yet she makes not a single mention of the 1900 Galveston hurricane in which over 6000 people perished. It is impossible for her not to know about Galveston; in fact, I have an ungenerous hunch that she modeled this book after Isaac's Storm, Erik Larsen's account of the Galveston hurricane. Minor quibble: Her insistence on giving the storm a catchy name, "GH38", is grating.On the plus side, I did like the way she connected the storm to the great Depression on one side and World War II on the other.
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