Reviews for A Quiet Storm

The average rating for A Quiet Storm based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-08-04 00:00:00 Steve Moidel If you have mental disorders in your family, you will especially relate to the themes touched on in this story. Bipolar disorder is a horrible illness that wrecks lives and families. Thankfully, the drugs to treat this are getting better than they were in the time period of this book's setting. Another theme explored in this book is parents and their favoritism for one child over others of their children. This, combined with mental disorders, can be deadly. When a society, and families, refuse to admit to and treat mental illness, that's when the United States suffers as a country with one of the highest rated of gun violence in the world. Well, the NRA doesn't help. Kudos to the author for a well-written work that deals with these difficult themes.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-04-11 00:00:00 Olaf Nagel It may not be a literary classic, but this book is one of my all time favorite books. I love how she addresses mental illness with such clarity and familiarity. It was almost as reminiscent as dealing with mental illness in our family. The author's detailed account of the time period's pop culture was surreal; I felt as if I was transported back to the day and time when I was a teenager. I loved this book.