maxerblaster 's review for:

Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon

3.0

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For the first couple hundred pages I was riveted but then something happened, more plot-lines occurred and the story started switching from one to the next to the next, and it seemed as if everything in this town centered on the narrator, who was a regular 12 year old. In some ways I think the various mini stories were interesting but in other ways, infuriating. I don't understand what the actual story of this book is and don't like how the stuff about the body in the lake got pushed back for other plots, or just how the book dragged at around page 300. It is way too long, much too long to keep my interest. Even the tone of the book and the mixture of the magical, grotesque and mundane started to grate me after a while, and these were the things that drew me into this book in the first place. I can't say it wasn't a good book, but it took so long for things to come to a head that the things I started out liking ended up annoying me. Though I did like the book overall, this just prevented me from loving it.