Review: True Storytelling With a Heart
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2012
Here's a close look at who were there, what happened before and after she sank, what happened to the passengers even years after...Focusing on a select group of passengers - those who found their way in Lifeboat No. 8 - the author did a great job, obviously going through an extensive research, citing several references in an almost four-page bibliography.  However, it isn't merely reportage; it is storytelling with a heart.In the fictional Titanic novel I recently read, I marveled at the author's creativity to play out her version of the events based on known facts.  Now in this true account, I was awed by the real people who felt real feelings, who made real decisions.  I was inspired by their actions in the face of an unimaginable catastrophe.  I couldn't help but allow myself to wonder about the what if's.The Titanic might be in its last stages of decay in the depths of the Atlantic, but even after another hundred years and beyond, and no matter how many hundred or more stories get told about it, I believe its magnanimity and mystery will live on and on.