3.5 stars. Not my usual cup of tea, which is why I read it. It got bogged down a bit in the middle and got a little heavy-handed with theme near the end, but it was an overall solid read.

I especially appreciated that this book went beyond surviving the sinking of the Titanic and examined what came next--survivor guilt, media frenzy, hearings full of lies and half-truths, etc.

The book follows enough characters that even though they occasionally felt flat or annoyed me, the POV was switched up often enough to hold my interest. So when I was exasperated with Tess, we switched to brash reporter Pinky Wade, and when Pinky started to wear on me, we'd get a glimpse of Lucille, and so on.

One thing I really didn't like about the book was the love triangle. ARGH. I AM SO SICK OF THEM. Love triangles have been all the rage in YA and urban fantasy, my primary genres of choice, so I was hoping to escape them with a foray into historical fiction, but no such luck. I did manage to enjoy the story despite the contrived and unnecessary love triangle though.