Thank you Tenbosha Publishing for accepting my request to read and review Hiroshima Twins on NetGalley.

Stars: 2.5

Respectfully, this needed an edit. At best this reads like a middle grade to lower scoring high school paper. Some issues are due to translation. I accept those: I speak and read only English, I'm not arrogant. However, my peeve is NetGalley not requiring a standard edit: proper use of a word, spelling, and spacing, etc.

As far as the story goes, it is simple. It's childish, but not necessarily for children. The paragraphs are short and are made up of just a couple sentences. The twins are spoken about more in the second half of the book. The first half is minimally over their siblings.

The synopsis tells the purpose of the book.

I would read this with a child for teaching a point in history that is morally ambivalent.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book tells the story of one lucky Japanese family who survived the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The overall story is interesting but I feel like this could've been written better. Maybe the translation makes the storyline not flow. An editor could make this book so much better.

An almost unbelievable account of a family of 10 that survives the Hiroshima bomb. It's amazing how most of the family survived with little or no problems from the radiation and lived into old age. A disastrous time in history is discussed in the book, but little is explained about the after-effects on the citizens and the country. This was a quick read for me and one that will be remembered.

This is biography of the Nakamura family who lived in Hiroshima at the time of the atomic bomb. Amazingly both parents and all their 8 children survived the blast. This biography covers the immediate aftermath of the blast and how the family went on to rebuild their lives before focussing on the youngest 2 children (twin girls) and their careers.

The book as it stands currently could do with an editor:
- the story shifts from a group biography to a twins biography mid way through - the book would benefit from keeping going as a group biography and include a chapter on each of the family members post, say, 1955 to present day
- please could the photographs identify who is in them
- for those of us who’ve not visited Hiroshima (and just know it’s a place in Japan), a map of Hiroshima showing the bomb blast and its distance from the family/their house/their workplaces would be really beneficial. It would seem that the bomb did not flatten all of Hiroshima so what percentage was destroyed, what population % was killed in the blast and later from radiation sickness, etc.?
- what were houses in Hiroshima built of and how easy was it to rebuild them?
- whilst it’s interesting that the famous actress was the first person to be identified with radiation sickness, it would read better if her story was all in one place in the work

This is an interesting read and the story of the family is heartwarming. However, this isn’t yet the definitive account of their experiences and lives. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

+Reading about the Hiroshima horror + following a family of 10 people and the befores and afters.
+Love that everyone got to tell bits of the story.
+Love to find out more about the family if they all survived the Pikadon poison/after effects.
+Loved seeing the family reunite (after the bomb and at the end of the book).
+/- Maybe more photographs? Maybe there are more, but mine just showed a couple sporadically.
-Sometimes the story went on a tangent about something and it just wasn't my thing, I just wanted to continue reading about the family.
-Not sure how I felt about reading about the twins and their jobs.

All in all, still happy with this book, it was interesting and I am glad I got to read it. Yes, it was horrific, but also gorgeous to see a family work hard to get back on their feet.

From the loading of the bomb onto the Enola Gay to dropping it at seven in the morning above Hiroshima Japan. The book covers it all but mainly focuses on theMakamurer Family of 10. From the parents to the youngest members The four month old twin daughtersIt uncovers what happened to the family and how the twins truly lived up to their name. Good talk about how the less injured helped the severely injured in the kindness that the Japanese showed each other in their time of need. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it it also discusses how despite living through a nightmare your dreams can still come true this book was just so good I could go on and on talking about the book but I want what I will say is if you love good non-fiction read the he Hiroshima twins it really is a great book about how sometimes good people do get what they deserve. I received this book from NetGalleyShelf and the publisher but I am leaving this review voluntarily please forgive any mistakes as I am blind and dictate my review.

A unique and touching story of a large family that experienced the bomb in Hiroshima and survived... and went on to find their place in the world--in fact all over the world.
It's an interesting addition to the real life stories of survivors of the bomb and adds to the readers knowledge of life after the bomb was dropped.