Annika DeStefano reviewed a book.
The Watch That Ends the Night
“One word... AMAZING!!! I am in love with this book, and i haven't even finished it. It is filled with poems from the voices of people from the titanic. I thought i knew everything about the titanic, but then i read this book and my mind now knows every detail about it, from how many life jackets...”
“One word... AMAZING!!! I am in love with this book, and i haven't even finished it. It is filled with poems from the voices of people from the titanic. I thought i knew everything about the titanic, but then i read this book and my mind now knows every detail about it, from how many life jackets (3,560) to the weight of the iceberg that crashed it (100,000 tons). You get a back stage pass to every thing there is to know about the titanic, but this book is not some research report, its also compact with all the inside scoops and gossip about and from the people on board. For example: Did you know that the officers hated the rest of the crew "god help us if we actually need lifeboats, since half the crew won't know which end of an oar goes in the water" those were an officers exact words. There are about seven poems that rotate through out the book about people telling you their lives and stories on the titanic. You even get poems about what it was like for the iceberg to be there. People thought the titanic was so unsinkable that they didn't even put as many lifeboats as they could have, because it blocked the 3rd class view. I bet you didn't know that now did you. "Scuttle scuttle scuttle sniff" go the ship rats running around the ship learning everything you wish you knew about the Titanic... "A shadow, cast by my prodigious bulk, becomes a phantom finger stretching out to mark the route Titanic's bow needs trace across the sea's gray-rippled endless face." - The Iceberg. Thank you Allan Wolf for creating the best historical fiction book i have ever laid hands on.”
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