A review by aretz
The Mercy of the Sky: The Story of a Tornado by Holly Bailey

2.0

2.5 stars. The beginning of this novel is hard to get through. I don't really care about how competitive the meteorology field is in Oklahoma or how much the meteorologists don't get along--it doesn't affect the storm whatsoever. It's fine to say that they are good at their jobs. It's fine to see them reporting during the storm. I do not think their life story, however, is pertinent here. Yes, the study of meteorology works here as well as how tornadoes form, however the novel kept repeating itself and it got old fast. This should have been a study simply about the one storm and the players involved during it. This just had too much needless information when all I really wanted to get into was the storm.

Once we got to the storm the novel picked up very fast. The first casualty shown, though, probably should have been, tastefully, anyone except the seven-month-old baby. We get the stakes through any death. The author did not have to be needlessly cruel too.