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A review by loslibros
The Adventurer's Son by Roman Dial
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
2.0
I have the somewhat pretentious tradition of reading a book based in a country before I visit for the first time. As I will be visiting Costa Rica next week, and as there are quite few books about Costa Rica apparently, this was my read.
I'm going to sound callous, maybe even cruel, but the author comes off selfishly throughout much of this book. I know — he lost his son. That's horrible and tragic. But much like Into the Wild, the death was totally preventable if the son had followed basic safety instructions, and it often feels like the author expected everyone to bend to his will to break all the rules for his search. I don't know the pain of losing a child, so that's probably natural in a sense, but I agree with the other review that says this story could've been better told by someone more neutral to the experience. Also, the entire first section adds relatively little and mostly comes off as boasting about how cool their life was!
I'm going to sound callous, maybe even cruel, but the author comes off selfishly throughout much of this book. I know — he lost his son. That's horrible and tragic. But much like Into the Wild, the death was totally preventable if the son had followed basic safety instructions, and it often feels like the author expected everyone to bend to his will to break all the rules for his search. I don't know the pain of losing a child, so that's probably natural in a sense, but I agree with the other review that says this story could've been better told by someone more neutral to the experience. Also, the entire first section adds relatively little and mostly comes off as boasting about how cool their life was!