John L. Manning Jr.

I liked the synopsis of this book, it's kind of a cool idea. So many things can happen to you in life, so it's really cool to read about a character who took a tragedy and overcame it. I like that not only was he able to overcome it to make his own life better, but that he would want to try and make other people's lives better.

Most of the time my problems with books are that they move to slow, but I really didn't have this problem when I was reading this book. My actual issue with this book had to do with moving to quick. For me a book is like a journey, you travel from point A to point B, and along the way you have bumps in the road, and hopefully a fun ride with great scenery. But for this book it felt like the author needed to move the book forward and didn't know how to do it, so they skipped some character development for John. I felt like if I had been along the ride for more of the journey with John then I would have been more invested in him as a character, and maybe would have enjoyed him a little bit more.

Another thing that I got from this book is that I feel like it's more of a guy book. Now I hate to say this, because I think books can work for both men and women depending on the person's interests. But for me I felt like this book didn't really work for me, for example the car elements/fighting had more a feel that I think a man would enjoy. I know I can think of a lot of my guy friends who might enjoy this book more than I did.

That being said I did enjoy some elements of the book, such as I enjoyed the different people that John met along the way. And once I got over missing out on some of his character development I did like seeing him evolve as a character through the book.

I am going to give this book a "so-so" rating because that is what my experience with the book, but that being said I really think there are some guy readers who would really enjoy this book, so you should consider giving this book a read.… (más)

This will be brief, because I couldn't finish the book. The prose is so horrible it's not even worth reading past the first paragraph. I stopped at page two and skimmed around to see if it got any better, but it didn't. The author cannot decide on what tense he wants to write in, the dialogue is stilted, the grammar is horrible, and there are typos. Utterly atrocious. There's a reason why this was self-published by AuthorHouse, a company that makes you pay to print your work. Add to the fact that the author leaves 5-star reviews on his own work here on Amazon and you really do hit a low with this stuff.

(This is basically the same review I'm putting up for three of his books that I tried to read, because it's true of each).… (más)