This has been one of the better Sunfires, and the framing of it was very effective considering one of the heroine's suitors is a newspaper reporter. Each chapter begins with the day and time, giving the reader a sense of a real-time unfolding of the tragedy of the 1889 Johnstown Flood. That might seem pretty dull, but in the chapters leading up to the dam break, this sense of people going about their business and oblivious or dismissive or cautious of the rising waters and leaking dam did much to ramp up... more info
My first Sunfire book-it was wonderful!:
This was the first Sunfire book I have read and it was wonderful! It was about Jennie Brooks, a young, spirited girl who lives in 1889 Johnstown. Her Aunt, who is a telegraph operator in South Fork, is sick and needs someone to take her place. So they call Jennie up who knows morse code. When Jennie arrives at South Fork's train station her old friend Jim Hurst greets her. Jim obivously likes her but she isn't so kind to him. This got me really mad in the book. I felt like screaming, "Come on Jennie! Stop... more info
Great book of survival, history, adventure, and romance!:
Jennie is visiting her aunt in Johnstown when the nearby South Fork Dam breaks and sends a wall of water heading toward the little town. Jennie must fight for her life and for the man she loves admist the raging flood. This is a great story of survival, history, adventure, and romance!
