Review: Beautiful, inspirational, thought provoking...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
I thought from the description that it would be a sports book, but this totally took me by surprise!  The plotline is a lot more meaningful than a boy playing football.  It's a somewhat spiritual journey for our main character, Gavin, who struggles to accept his mother's choices just before her death, trying to run away and meeting some pretty interesting characters.  The author doesn't follow the stereotypes of characters, like most other stories do, but each character is completely unique to each other, and pretty much any from other books I've read.  All of the dialogue between Walt and Gavin just blow my mind...  Like they talk about pretty much everyday things, but Walt's perspective is just so DIFFERENT and inspirational.  And what he says is completely fact!  Like, it should be obvious, but I haven't thought about it like that!  Sure, the plotline may be awesome already, but I love this book most for Walt's part in it.I will say the beginning of the book was very dense and kind of hard to get into.  There was a lot of description about things that I personally didn't feel was important to the story, but maybe it was to set the mood.  For me, though, it made it just a bit hard to focus.  This was an awesome factor later on though  :)