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Isaac’s Storm by Erick Larson is a very interesting read. Its an account of true events and uses dates, facts and quotes other works like you would see in books like a history book in any other class, but it reads like a story that the author made up. It’s a bit difficult to get into at first but once i got into it it was very entertaining. Larson’s writing style makes you think you are reading a fiction novel and gets you really into the characters and that is why Larson wrote it the way he did. While writing in this style does make it more entertaining, it sometimes weirdly crosses the line of fiction and non-fiction. While this quote is not really important to the story it shows how Larson makes a claim that he might not actually know for sure happened. “Isaac received a cavalry saber as part of hi official kit. He loved its heft, and its cold hard lines, and how it evoked the stories he had heard men tell of Pickett’s Charge”(Larson 34). How does the author know for sure that thought came in to Isaac’s head in that manner. A lot of my classmates reference how writing style does a better job of letting the reader kinda step into the shoes of the people that went through the destruction of the Galveston hurricane. I do agree and would like to see more examples of this type of writing, even with the occasional step into fiction.