The first half of the book consists of the stories of several first-class (and therefore wealthy and well-known) passengers. There were too many of these to keep straight, and the stories weren't interesting enough for me to make any extra effort. The third-class passengers were totally ignored, not even mentioned more than two or three times in the book for a total of perhaps four sentences. I understand that more is known about those in first-class, but surely some representative of third-class could have been found. I could have offered them one story. Throughout these biographies, brief mentions of the ship and the voyage are scattered. Once the torpedo hit the ship, the book offers a more straightforward account, although still concentrating on the first-class entirely. The final chapter wraps up the mostly uninteresting stories of the people who were already covered far too much. If, perhaps, they had concentrated on two or three people from first-, second-, and third-class and crew and gone into more detail, it would have been more interesting.