REVIEW - CITY OF REFUGE

This book is for 2 of my reading challenges.
100+ Challenge
Suspense & Thriller[Disaster Thriller](Wrap Up)

"City of Refuge" by Tom Piazza
Product Description(Amazon.com)

In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront a storm that will change the course of their lives.
SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward community where he was born and raised. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern transplant and the editor of the city's alternative paper, faces deepening cracks in his family. When the news of the gathering hurricane spreads—and when the levees give way and the floodwaters come—the fate of each family changes forever.
# Paperback: 432 pages
# Publisher: Harper Perennial (August 4, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0061673617
# ASIN: B003IWYGYS

MY THOUGHTS: I am one of the thousands that watched this event, Hurricane Katrina, fall down on New Orleans. I watched it on t.v. I was glued to the t.v. for hours. Wondering what was going to happen to all those people. Their homes, possessions, families and friends. This book follows SJ and Craig before, during and after the Hurricane. Craig and Anne didn't loose that much. A window broken and the roof ripped off in spots. SJ lost lots more. His house was still standing but the front of it was missing. SJ also lost his sister. This book lets you see into their lives and how they coped with this disaster. How they survived before and after the storm. Did they go back to New Orleans after the storm? Well, you'll have to read the book to find out.

MY RATING: 5
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This is also my wrap up of the Suspense & Thriller reading challenge. I read 12 books out of 12. Here is my list of books. This reading challenge is hosted by Book Chick at Book Chick City.

1. Murder Mystery - Evidence - Jonathan Kellerman
2. Action Thriller - The Clouds Roll Away - Sibella Giorello
3. Historical Thriller - The Murder of King Tut - James Patterson
4. Spy Thriller - The Rook - Steven James
5. Serial Killer Thriller - The Last Surgeon - Michael Palmer
6. Terrorist Thriller - The Breath of Allah - Tempest O'Rourke
7. Private Detective - Half-Moon Investigations - Eoin Colfer
8. Futuristic Thriller - Freedom's Call - John Walker
9. Hard Boiled Mystery - Rough Country - John Sandford
10. Cozy Mystery - The Twin in the Tavern - Barbara Brooks Wallace
11. Amateur Mystery - The Secret of Holly Green Manor - Karen Cogan
12. Disaster Thriller - City of Refuge - Tom Piazza