Review: Predator.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 25, 2014
The woods where many tall trees live are the bearer of many secrets. Some of these secrets are eventually revealed while others stay buried deep with only the trees as witness.Coming from different backgrounds, ten year-old Josh and Stevie form an unlikely friendship. Feeling a comfortable safe haven in the woods, the boys use the woods to meet and share the secrets they are too scared to tell anyone else about.When both boys realize that they are both going through the same troubling trauma a plan is formulated; but are Josh and Stevie brave enough to carry it out?I enjoyed this story and was totaled pulled into the plot. “If These Trees Could Talk” is heart wrenching and as the layers of the story unfold, I thought I knew how the story would end but then Mr. Smith kicked it up a notch with a shocking twist!!With excellent development done by Mr. Smith, the reader was led to believe that there was a connection between Mr. Benjamin and Stevie, but by the end of the story that was not the case. The fact that little pieces of Mr. Benjamin’s life kept surfacing throughout the story adding fuel to the fire and then that fire was put out abruptly without rhyme or reason was a drawback for me. I liked Ms. Tharp; she proved that when parents aren’t paying attention to their children, at school there are few teaching angels who notice odd behavior and act upon it, regardless of any obstacles.A recommended read.LocksieARC Book Club Inc.