This book was mesmerizing and riveting and very informative. Christina Soontornvat takes a huge media story that I feel like most people probably heard about and makes it seem like an entirely new, fresh, nail-biting mystery. I mean, the very title makes it pretty obvious that all thirteen boys are going to make it out alive, but I still was nervous that it would actually happen until it did! That's good non-fiction story-telling right there. I also appreciate that the author tried to highlight everyone who contributed, especially those (mostly Thais) who didn't take the spotlight and do the daring cave scuba-diving but who provided materials, food, vehicles, prayers and days of endless service to make everything happen. Christina for the double-win in 2020!! (She is the first author, by the way, to win two honors in the same year for a fiction and a non-fiction book. And both were really good.)
Read it! Even if you watched the news coverage while it was happening, I promise you will be shocked by everything you didn't know.
