Reviews - The Storm We Made

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The Storm We Made

Vanessa Chan

3.9 AVERAGE

joekbooks's review against another edition

4.0

emotional sad medium-paced

langliemorgan's review against another edition

5.0

fast-paced

radianorflin's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Incredibly sad tragedy about how nobody actually freaking wins anything in the selfishness of war. Slow, dark, shocking in its bluntness at times, but beatufully written nonetheless. Kinda left me empty and hopeless.

dylanhenning's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I don’t typically read historical fiction but damn Vanessa Chan wrote an incredibly engaging and emotional book.

The different perspectives and events kept pulling me in more and more all the while giving me nuggets of information I’ve never known about what happened to what is now known as Malaysia before and during World War II under occupation from the British empire then the Japanese empire.

This book through the perspectives of the different family members shows the hardships and sacrifices and hard choices that were made to have a better life or just to simply survive.

peachyteachy's review against another edition

4.0

This was a hard read. I was very intrigued by the fact that is from Malaysian voices. From the mouth of a Malaysian "spy" who thought she was doing something for a better future. A normal, person - not a trained military tool. So much pain, hurt, bad judgement. The setting is a character in this one. Everything about this novel was - novel, to me.