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Rating: 3 Summary: The Divine Wind Review by "Katie"
Comment A novel of war, culture, romance, drama, and takes place in the 1940's in Broome, Australia. The narrator of this novel is also the main character. His name is Hart Penrose. Some of the other main characters in this novel are Alice Penrose (Hart's sister), and Misty Sennosuke. The theme in the novel is "romance." This book wasn't hard but it wasn't easy, I guess you could say it was just in the middle. Garry Disher uses a lot of imagery in his writing. He does a good job describing the characters feelings. The main character "hart" has a very stressful life between his mom leaving him and then dieing and because his father doesn't pay attention to him. If it wasn't for his sister "Alice" who is also his best friend, Hart would be nothing. Hart has had a crush on "Misty" forever, but for some reason she doesn't go for him. Misty is also Alice's best friend. This novel shows a fight for love. Hart wants to be with Misty so bad, it breaks his heart that he can't have her. It's hard because Misty is Japanese and Hart is Australian. There's a war going on in the novel against Japan. Hart's father is on the Australian side, which makes it hard for Misty, because she came from Japan. Throughout the novel there were a lot of tragedies in the families in the novel, which made it easy for the friends and siblings to stick together and be there for each other. Garry Fisher is an awesome writer. The whole time I was reading I felt like I was actually in the novel. It was one of those novels you can't put down!

Rating: 4 Summary: the divine wind
Comment This is a divine story. It is about Hart, a boy who lives in a small Australian town before World War 2. He lives with his sister, father and before she moves away to London, his mother. Hart also has a Japanese friend named Misty who's smart funny and just plain old fun and in Harts eyes...beautiful. They are best friends Misty and he and when Pearl Harbor is attacked and all of the Japanese have to move to camps Hart and his father take Misty and her mother in to live with them. While living together Misty and Harts relationship expands and they become lovers, but can there love survive the turmoil of war? This is a brutally honest story of war, family, and first love. I highly recommend this story to anyone.

Rating: 1 Summary: I am so depressed
Comment This book would have to be the most depressing book I have ever read, there is nothing good or happy exept a couple of scenes. When I finished this book (and I only finished it because I had to) I threw it down in disgust.

Rating: 3 Summary: The Devine Wind: A love story
Comment The story had great details about the setting and descriced the character beautifully, but it was hard to fallow the plot and who were the characters, i wish there was an ending so we could find out what happens to the characters still living. Other wise--- great book that kept me reading.

Rating: 1 Summary: The not so Divine Wind
Comment What kind of a name is MITSY? And by the way what kind of a name is DISHER? We have been forced to study the Divine Wind in english and we hope this love story (if you can call it that) isn't a re-enactment of Disher's childhood. The characters in this book are undeveloped, the romance is cold and boring, the scene is as well set as a rubics cube. How can this book be compared to Romeo and Juliet? Overall leave romance to the experts.