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I may be just a bit prejudiced in my rating of this book; but being from the mid-west with a love of the spectacular storms that part of our country can spawn, I found myself enjoying the chase scenes immensely. However this book is more about people and relationships and guilty secrets than it is about storms. The characters were well drawn and likeable. The relationship of the twins was especially interesting to me
The fact that they were in some ways so different in others so much alike. I don’t want to spoil the story so enough said.


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The Stormchasers Jenna Blum Books Reviews

A good book, But like so many novels these days -- ends kinda fast, seems to want to clean up the issues. Still, a good beach read.
Thank you.
Excellent. The author lets the reader actually FEEL the storm...besides, I am a longhaul trucker and she describes some of the places I go on a regular basis. Very realistic storytelling.
Not a blockbuster, but okay. I kept reading to see what happened. Found the plot to be a bit far-fetched.
A great look at a bipolar life and how it affects the whole family. The storm chasing scenes are both riveting and educational. Her characters are believable and suck you into their story.
This is a story about siblings who were estranged because of a tragic incident. The sister goes looking for her brother after 20 years of separation. It is a poignant story that I truly enjoyed.
I am a storm chaser, and became interested in reading this book solely because of the storm chasing element. After reading the synopsis, I questioned whether I really wanted to read a book on bipolar disorder, and was concerned that it would be too deep and disturbing with the storm chasing aspect incidental at best.

I bought it anyway, and was pleasantly surprised. Obviously I enjoyed the storm chasing parts, but the bipolar storyline drew me in as well. As a father of twins, I also appreciated the connection and "twindar" that Karena and Charles share.

There are plenty of technical and non-fiction books on severe weather and storm chasing, but to my knowledge there are none - other than The Stormchasers - that are works of fiction. While the non-fiction ones certainly try to capture the excitement and passion of storm chasing, there is something about the medium of fiction that simply does it better. Or perhaps it's just Jenna Blum's writing ability that does it. Either way, I really enjoyed her depiction of the chase experience. I particularly appreciated how she describes the difficulties in adjusting and "acclimating" back to "real life" after a chase trip; this is something I have always had trouble with myself, and I have yet to see anyone fully discuss this on any storm chasing forum to the extent Blum does in her novel. Finally, someone who empathizes with this phenomenon! (For storm junkies only I must say that Blum's depiction of storms and storm chasing are fairly accurate, save for an odd reference associating mammatus clouds with the base of a storm... Mammatus are found only in the underside of the anvil, not under the base of the updraft...)

Although I can appreciate the storms as a metaphor for Charles's illness, I did feel like the two themes of storm chasing and bipolar disorder were somewhat disparate and disjointed. It seems like these are each, in and of themselves, very big themes worthy of their own separate books, and that it was almost too ambitious to tackle them both in one novel. On the other hand, as fascinating as storm chasing is, it cannot stand on its own without some human drama, so perhaps this was an almost ideal intertwining of subject matter given the analogy Blum draws.

There are criticisms I could make, in agreement with other reviewers, such as the sometimes-jarring third person present tense narrative, the sometimes-creepy relationship between Karena and Charles, and the sometimes-cheesy dialogue, particularly between Karena and Kevin and his "Laredo" references. I was disappointed that there wasn't more storm chasing in the second half of the book. But these are merely observations with limited substance, because the bottom line is that I did not want to put the book down and proactively looked for time to read it, something I cannot say about every book I read.
I may be just a bit prejudiced in my rating of this book; but being from the mid-west with a love of the spectacular storms that part of our country can spawn, I found myself enjoying the chase scenes immensely. However this book is more about people and relationships and guilty secrets than it is about storms. The characters were well drawn and likeable. The relationship of the twins was especially interesting to me
The fact that they were in some ways so different in others so much alike. I don’t want to spoil the story so enough said.