The Storm After by Gina Hooten Popp

The Storm After by Gina Hooten Popp.  In the dark of the night, September 8, 1900, a terrible hurricane hit Galveston, TX, wiping out nearly all buildings and most of the people.  As the sky lightened, survivors stumbled through debris and bodies, disoriented a few feet from their former homes because everything is wiped away.  Although the stories about each individual survivor are fiction, it is based on facts of the time.  The lives of the characters are woven beautifully around the agonies they must go through to carry on. This was a 10 out of 10 until the ending when it just quit. No real solutions or solid directions for the character.  One gets the feeling they will flit from one thing to another.  There are just implications of what might happen..or not.  Temporary situations may have been better, but what about the next few weeks?  It was like the first book of a trilogy; a tease to tune in next week, to be continued.  8 out of 10.