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A review by ziyal
September 11, 2001: The Day the World Changed Forever by Héloïse Chochois, Baptiste Bouthier
4.0
I received an arc of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
I gave this book four stars. There was a lot of details in the book that I appreciated. Since I learn about 9/11 almost every year there’s not a lot of the information about the order of events or the big stuff that happened that day that is new to me, but there is always new information about the people or some of the smaller details about the day and the people involved.
The first detail that stuck out to me was that the point of view was from a French girl. To me this really showed how 9/11 impacted the world and not just America. I also appreciated the detail of including masks when jumping forward to 2021.
The fact that I have learned about 9/11 almost every year made this book impact me more. For example, on one of the pages the author shows one of the office spaces in the South Tower and says that “the second plane struck the South Tower just a few floors below theirs”, and while the author doesn’t mention the damage to the stairs till later, I have enough knowledge of 9/11 to realize the severity of that. Or when the author mentioned that at first the twin tower workers didn’t realize the danger, they were in at first. There were a couple instances where the author mentions groups of people inside the buildings whether they are workers or firefighters and then the author would make a comment about how “none of them survived” or “those who didn’t follow, wouldn’t have enough time to make it out” and those lines impacted me more then just simply saying this person died. Also learning that only four people from above the impact of the South Tower survived was something I had not known before.
It also still amazes me that there are people missing from this. Another thing that I appreciated about this book is that the author didn’t just cover the direct aftermath of the attack and call it a day, but also went into the long-term effects for example covering other terrorist attacks in other countries and the questions surrounding healthcare of the first responders (learning that the first responders’ health was not taken into consideration pissed me off so much). That showed the amount of research the author put into this book and really demonstrated why this book deserved the title of “The Day the World Changed Forever.”
I gave this book four stars. There was a lot of details in the book that I appreciated. Since I learn about 9/11 almost every year there’s not a lot of the information about the order of events or the big stuff that happened that day that is new to me, but there is always new information about the people or some of the smaller details about the day and the people involved.
The first detail that stuck out to me was that the point of view was from a French girl. To me this really showed how 9/11 impacted the world and not just America. I also appreciated the detail of including masks when jumping forward to 2021.
The fact that I have learned about 9/11 almost every year made this book impact me more. For example, on one of the pages the author shows one of the office spaces in the South Tower and says that “the second plane struck the South Tower just a few floors below theirs”, and while the author doesn’t mention the damage to the stairs till later, I have enough knowledge of 9/11 to realize the severity of that. Or when the author mentioned that at first the twin tower workers didn’t realize the danger, they were in at first. There were a couple instances where the author mentions groups of people inside the buildings whether they are workers or firefighters and then the author would make a comment about how “none of them survived” or “those who didn’t follow, wouldn’t have enough time to make it out” and those lines impacted me more then just simply saying this person died. Also learning that only four people from above the impact of the South Tower survived was something I had not known before.
It also still amazes me that there are people missing from this. Another thing that I appreciated about this book is that the author didn’t just cover the direct aftermath of the attack and call it a day, but also went into the long-term effects for example covering other terrorist attacks in other countries and the questions surrounding healthcare of the first responders (learning that the first responders’ health was not taken into consideration pissed me off so much). That showed the amount of research the author put into this book and really demonstrated why this book deserved the title of “The Day the World Changed Forever.”