The Hurricane (Audible Audio Edition) Hugh Howey Tim Gerard Reynolds Books
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Daniel Stillman's Life 42 Facebook friends, 18 Cell phone contacts, 6 Twitter followers, 4 blog subscribers. Now a category five storm is about to take this all away. And replace it with a neighbor he's never met.
The Hurricane (Audible Audio Edition) Hugh Howey Tim Gerard Reynolds Books
Unlike the other books I have read (and loved) by Hugh Howey, this one is a “regular” book (not scifi, post-apocalyptic, or dystopian) for young adults about a hurricane that devastates the town of Beaufort, North Carolina.Daniel Stillman, 17, feels like an outcast in high school. He doesn’t fit in with any of the “cliques": the jocks, the preps, the hipsters, the gamers…. He thinks he must be just too dull - he dresses in normal clothes, he lacks confidence with girls, and doesn’t even have a smartphone like everyone else. The other kids scorn him as a “rando, a creeper, a sketch.”
Then Hurricane Anna hits, with the eye right over Beaufort. Daniel and his family (mom, stepdad Carlton, and younger sister Zola) take refuge in the bathroom in the center of the house. Trees come down everywhere, and they end up with a big hole in their house. Daniel’s estranged dad shows up with a chainsaw, and they and the other neighbors set about the business of cleaning up and rebuilding.
With the power out for a week, suddenly people are forced to interact with one another rather than with their digital devices, and Daniel’s family gets to know each other and their neighbors really for the first time. Daniel meets a nice, smart girl only four houses away, ironically named Anna, who has been home-schooled, precisely to avoid the kind of social pressures that have tormented Daniel.
Evaluation: This is a very sweet and quiet story, with a sort of delayed impact, much as one might experience from being in the eye of a storm. Daniel has an appealing, self-deprecating sense of humor. Howey is adept at conveying the different fears and insecurities members of his family feel both before and during the storm. The family dynamics are well done, and Howey never sugarcoats the family’s relationship with either the Stepdad or the Dad.
I thought the blurbs about the plot misrepresented it. I found it to be a good coming of age story, not really a parable about digital overload.
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The Hurricane (Audible Audio Edition) Hugh Howey Tim Gerard Reynolds Books Reviews
I wasn't sure what to expect from this book, and at first, I was a little disappointed, because it took the story a little bit of time to grab me and pull me in. It seemed that a lot of pages were dedicated to showing me what a non-descript high school kid Daniel was. But I knew it was a Hugh Howey story, and so I kept reading. Finally, as the storm hit, the story kicked in, and when Daniel meets a neighbor girl who he previously didn't even know existed, we are treated to the real Daniel...the kid being hidden by all the BS that is high school social interaction. And from there the story became (for me) a compelling read, demanding that I continue until I reached the end.
At first, because I hadn't been grabbed by the story, I was noticing the simplicity of the writing. After finishing a Stephen King novel (REVIVAL) before starting this one, I missed the masterful command of language that I believe King has. There was a lack of elegance and beauty in the words and phrases used to convey the story. I started to wonder if, because of the great plots of other Howey offerings, I'd missed this about his writing. And I still don't know, because when the story grabbed me, it grabbed me, and if that lack of elegance was still there, I didn't notice it. (I suspect it was, and I just was beyond paying attention to it.)
For me, the mark of a really good story is that I want to know what happens to these characters down the road. Howey made me care about them, and that is a success in my book.
First off, big congratulations to AMAZON's engine for referring a Hugh Howey book my way. This is definately a huge plus to KINDLE owners to discover new authors. All that said, this was the third of the Howey stories for me to read and the first for me to figure out how to leave a review. I was instantly in the head of the main character and enjoyed the developements of his family through a tough event. After I was halfway through the story a strange fear developed in me that there would be a twist of fate that was going to rattle my bones which after having the wool pulled over my eyes in WOOL i felt was a great possibility. Needless to say I was tickled with the very organic redemption of Daniel's father and how Daniel found his own way as an awkward yound adult. The empathy i could feel for the various character's amazed me in that they were developed so well I was amazed I felt for them all in the ways that i did. Thank you AMAZON and Hugh for bringing all these stories my way.
This will be as highly recomended a Hugh Howey story as Wool and Halfway Home and all for very different reasons.
I loved this story, short, to the point and just brilliantly written, for moments during my real life I expected to look up and find a fallen tree before instantly snapping back to reality and realizing that I live in Australia and in a place not prone to hurricanes and/or tornados... But yeah, having read Wool 1 before this and just finished plagiarist, this is still the best one so far... But only marginally...
Next stop, half way home... Then the rest of wool then finally Molly Fyde.
One thing is for sure, out of the thousands of books, E or real, that I have read in my 27 years on this planet, no writer has even kept my attention through multiple different stories as Hugh Howey has.
And, like a lot of people with Mr. Howeys works, this is my very first review as I thought this story was just THAT good... Hope you write more of these style of stories, you know, life of a teen style, I dunno why, maybe my teenage years weren't exciting enough and I just want to live though the power of words those years... Or something like that...
Tl;Dr
The story was perfect, captured my imagination for word one and literally made me feel like I was there... Excelent work!
Unlike the other books I have read (and loved) by Hugh Howey, this one is a “regular” book (not scifi, post-apocalyptic, or dystopian) for young adults about a hurricane that devastates the town of Beaufort, North Carolina.
Daniel Stillman, 17, feels like an outcast in high school. He doesn’t fit in with any of the “cliques" the jocks, the preps, the hipsters, the gamers…. He thinks he must be just too dull - he dresses in normal clothes, he lacks confidence with girls, and doesn’t even have a smartphone like everyone else. The other kids scorn him as a “rando, a creeper, a sketch.”
Then Hurricane Anna hits, with the eye right over Beaufort. Daniel and his family (mom, stepdad Carlton, and younger sister Zola) take refuge in the bathroom in the center of the house. Trees come down everywhere, and they end up with a big hole in their house. Daniel’s estranged dad shows up with a chainsaw, and they and the other neighbors set about the business of cleaning up and rebuilding.
With the power out for a week, suddenly people are forced to interact with one another rather than with their digital devices, and Daniel’s family gets to know each other and their neighbors really for the first time. Daniel meets a nice, smart girl only four houses away, ironically named Anna, who has been home-schooled, precisely to avoid the kind of social pressures that have tormented Daniel.
Evaluation This is a very sweet and quiet story, with a sort of delayed impact, much as one might experience from being in the eye of a storm. Daniel has an appealing, self-deprecating sense of humor. Howey is adept at conveying the different fears and insecurities members of his family feel both before and during the storm. The family dynamics are well done, and Howey never sugarcoats the family’s relationship with either the Stepdad or the Dad.
I thought the blurbs about the plot misrepresented it. I found it to be a good coming of age story, not really a parable about digital overload.
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