Storm Warriors

by Jon Nappa, The Navigators

Storm Warriors is based on the amazing true story of a man inspired to save lives after losing everything he had. Driven by a selfless passion to prevent future tragedies, Lionel Luken must overcame tremendous odds to change the world forever.

256 pages, Paperback

First published December 21, 2007

Reviews

[Addison S · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the sweetest, saddest book I’ve read all month. (I do realize that the month has just begun but it will still probably be the best book I read all month.)
It starts with a young family traveling through a stormy sea. Tho the captain tried his best, the ship runs against The Sands. The captain, crew, and family struggle to survive but most of the crew, and the wife and son, are washed away. In desperation, the captain of the ship struggles to save his last passenger. He stabs the man’s hand, albeit accidentally, to the mast. It was this act alone that saved the man and he was washed on shore along with the mast.
A kindly, young sailor helps the man to the Reverend’s house where he is nursed back to health. The man, devastated by his loss, determines that no family should have to go through what he went through.
I confess that I cried at certain parts in this book. I felt the man’s grief and anger at the loss of life that the sailors accepted as everyday occurrence.
Read this book. Just. Read. It.

[Beverly · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me a couple of chapters to really get my head into this story as it jumped right into sailor talk aboard a vessel that was soon to be ship wrecked. I struggled with the new lingo for awhile, but soon the story swept me up in its currents and I longed to know how things would work out in the end.
A beautiful story of redemption and new innovations birth out of tragedy and loss.
A story of hearts stirred to courageous deeds in the face of the seemingly impossible!
Glad I picked it up for my weekend read!

[Bryan Withey · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best historical fiction books that I have read.

[Mary Poduska · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was really disappointed in the book. I was excited to read it, but instead I found it rather dull and boring. It took almost all of the book to get to an interesting and somewhat exciting part, and then the books ends. It's also LOOSELY based on true events. Basically, Lukin was a real person and so was the Reverend and Lukin did make a lifeboat, but they didn't even live at the same time. So why put them together? I found it stupid. I paid $3 for the book. Save your money.

[Wayne · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a slow go, with all the old English sailor talk and terms, but it got better and had a wow ending.