Though it doesn't have quite the polish of Larson's later books, Isaac's Storm is a compelling, suspenseful story about one of the deadliest hurricanes in history and how meteorology at the time got it wrong. There are a couple of areas of repetition and Isaac Cline, as Larson notes, didn't leave a lot of materials to go on regarding his character, so I never felt like I really understood him. But Larson did a good job of moving back and forth between various Galveston residents' stories and creating exciting cliffhangers at the end of chapters.

One thing I expected but wasn't included was a bit more of an epilogue of how a situation like this would've been treated by meteorologists today. Larson integrates modern meteorological knowledge throughout but I was left wondering what happened to the Weather Bureau after the events in the book and how new technologies have impacted storm warning systems.