Review: Really rather boring.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2014
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.I found this to be a tedious read. I didn't find the main character to be likable at all. Little Joe loses his parents in a car crash at the age of nine and ends up having to live with his maternal grand-parents on their farm. He has only ever visited for vacations and never spent a large amount of time with them so farm life comes as a shock to him.Although I did feel for him at the start of the story within a very short period of time, I found myself disliking him. I thought that he needed a spanking and at times I did wonder why no punishment happened to him as this book is set during the war and it wasn't a crime to punish your children at that time. The fact that he runs away doesn't help, when he ignores his grandfather and gets his friend hurt playing soldiers and again when he decides to make a bomb and his friend gets hurt yet again, surely he would have had a spanking.The good thing about the book was that you were immersed in the scenery and the settings of the tale but that was the only thing I did like unfortunately.