What Storm, What Thunder is a masterful work. Chancy holds nothing back as she takes through the journey of these various characters. Weaving the narratives together in such a moving and expert way. The characters' choices and lack of choices throughout the book continued to strike the reader. The way Chancy presented death scenes was eloquent and moving, juxtaposed against the harsh reality of the death that was around them. Connection was a major theme throughout the book. Chancy connects the reader with the characters, and the characters with each other. The beauty of life and connection is contrasted with destruction and death. A must read, What Storm, What Thunder will keep you glued to the pages.

Many of the character's musings struck me but these two thoughts/quotes stood out to me the most - The American white saviours who came and helped "decentralize" the capital. The narrator says " The problem with promises is that they don't come with guarantees; they can be forgotten or broken. They aren't worth the paper they're written on. In the desert there is no paper. You go out there on a prayer and wait." The other thing quote was "I'm thirty-two. The same as the number of Cuz that Haiti has suffered in its two-hundred-year history. I don't know how many more strokes of the lash we can bear."