Review: Too wordy, too slow paced
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 16, 2011
Like others, I like coming of age stories, but it took way too long to get the point where the hero actually started to show any promise besides being a wuss. Understandable up to a point, but living on a farm and he has a horror of blood?  It was all I could do to keep reading until it started speeding up a little about halfway through.Like others, it seemed to me the author spent way to much effort trying to be so descriptive of things that needed only a few sentences, not whole paragraphs.  Also, the non editing showed in very long run on sentences and dangling participles.. The author has a large vocabulary, but seems less capable at grammar.