bartsnel 's review for:

Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon

4.0

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I read Boy’s Life for the first time some forty years ago and I was curious how it would hold up after all this time. I wasn’t disappointed. In this genre McCammon is one of the best I think. The story is set in small-town Alabama in 1964 and though it is narrated by a twelve year old boy, it touches on matters very ‘grown-up’ like racism, segregation, bullying, friends dying, corruption, word war II and (neo)Nazis. It is not a realistic story; there are monsters and some voodoo magic, but seen through the eyes of a kid it’s pretty scary just the same.