A review by notesurfer
Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon

Did not finish book. Stopped at 25%.

Boy's Life is a nostalgic magical realism retelling of boyhood adventures. The prose is excellent - evocative and straightforward. Some of the metaphors are a bit too straightforward in fact. And the tone is excessively romanticizing: the 60's, childhood, the American South, everything is painted with vivid importance and the gentleness of retrospect. There is an overarching lore building with each story, but it's taken too long to develop and the individual stories don't have much to say beyond "Hey, remember when? Wasn't that great?" It's just a bit too indulgent for me to bear.