Review: A commonly-told story, told this time in an uncommon way...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 10, 2012
While researching my own book (Reckless Abandon: The Costa Concordia Disaster), I purchased Elizabeth Kaye's book, just for an insight into a similar maritime tragedy of a century ago.  What I found was a fellow authors' skillful weaving of a commonly told story from an entirely different angle.  Kaye's book focuses on the occupants of a single lifeboat, 'Lifeboat #8', one of the first boats to leave the stricken ship. Kaye does an admirable job of putting the reader into that lifeboat, and in doing so, she develops the characters well enough for you to feel like you know them, with all their emotional baggage of survivors' guilt. If you're a fan of the Titanic tragedy or of maritime disasters in general (as I am), I think that you'll like this book.