crankylibrarian 's review for:

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

2.0

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5 word summary: Losing your whole family sucks. I have nothing but admiration and compassion for Sonali Deranyagali, but there's just not enough here to make an engaging book. Great survival stories need at least one of these elements: a dramatic struggle against the elements, or a life changing spiritual/philosophical reawakening. This has neither: the author survived purely by chance, and her path to healing contains no particular revelations. While this is probably realistic, it's simply not interesting.