This book was amazeeee-ing!!!! 
 I wanted an easy read for an evening, something to do with survival, but boy did I not know what I was getting into. And I am glad I chose this book among others. It was like stumbling onto one of those rare jewels, truly great books that are hard to find and identify. 
 Maybe the character development was a tad slight (no deeper inner monologues), but I didn't notice that much as I was inhaling the pages. 
 I was a bit reluctant at first, considering this novel involves a certain kind of (view spoiler)[(a teacher and her pupil-to-be, more precisely) (hide spoiler)] - romance, but I was so, so wrong. It wasn't like that at all. 
 It is a story of both coming of age and learning to let go, of pain and fear, of hopelessness and such a profound, deep love, which weathers through anything - be it a literal storm or an emotional one.