Wave

As other readers have pointed out, the author of this book comes across as pretty selfish and entitled at times and it's sometimes hard to figure out what she's getting to and that sometimes makes for a jarring reading experience. That being said, I think it might just be the way se expresses herself more than her actually being those things. I have no idea how I would react to such a large amount of tragedy and it's her story so it's not my place to say what's the right or wrong way to tell it so I'm not going to rate this one.

I expected more information on “the event” - the tsunami that took her family. I was curious why I wasn't getting more emotional about the story – I generally cry at the drop of a hat, and certainly about children dying – and then last night, about 1/3rd of the way through, I did cry. But overall it resonated with me less than I thought it would, and I'm not sure why.