Listen to the audiobook, they said. The audiobook is the best way to consume this book, they said. Maybe I shouldn't have listened because audiobooks rarely work for me. (So take this review with a grain of salt.) Even though there were a number of accounts that were either chilling or harrowing, especially with the recorded calls leading up to the attacks and the stories of the aftermath, I found myself growing increasingly uninterested from the quarter mark onwards. It certainly didn't help that I had only learned about Dick Cheney recently from watching Adam McKay's 2018 film Vice, so hearing quotes from him just kind of left a bad taste in my mouth, especially since a lot of 9/11 discussions have led to fuel for the US's atrocities in the Middle East and Islamophobia in general. I understand that a lot of the narratives here would focus on the direct victims of the attacks and I'm glad that the effect that the events of 9/11 had on the Arab community in the US at the time was touched on, but I wish there had been more of an exposé on that side of things. I was also confused at some points because of the switching perspectives, which I initially appreciated as it provided a layered look into different events, but the more the storylines progressed the more I thought that this format would have worked better for me in print.