Unlike Barnes' previous books, Mother of Storms has a fairly large cast of viewpoint characters.
They're not all necessarily good guys, either, although with the hurricanes wreaking wholesale destruction upon the world's coastal areas, ethical categories tend to become irrelevant.
This usually irritates me, but I didn't mind it here, and their interactions are well-handled and informative, although occasionally in moving them about the author's manipulations are a bit blatant.
But even the Evil American Corporate Magnate is a pretty likable guy.