A review by chinalover33
Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon

3.0

This book was suggested by my mom since she had read it a long time ago and enjoyed it. We decided to read it together along with my sister. I read it all in about a week, but my mom is about a third way through, and my sister is still on page 50. I was tired of waiting lol.

I should preface this by saying that this type of book isn't one that I'd usually read, which is why I rated it just three stars. I think there were some enjoyable parts throughout, but it felt mostly like a bunch of short events happening rather than one continuous narrative. There is an overarching story though that ties the beginning and end together pretty well. I liked reading about all of the stuff that happened to Corey, but nothing really stuck with me that heavily.

This is a very interesting book since it can mostly be seen as a slice-of-life, coming-of-age story with a few sci-fi elements mixed in. I'm sure a lot of people will thoroughly enjoy themselves reading this, but for me, I thought it was solid, but nothing amazing.

Spoilers

At first, I thought that this was going to be one of those stories where from the child's perspective, a lot of fantastical stuff happens, but the adults don't fully see it since they are grown up. It would keep in line with the idea of a child's magical mind versus an adult's one. But the more I read it, the adults are aware of these events such as the sea monster and Corey's dog Rebel. It was a little confusing since that was a bit ambiguous whether the adults saw what Corey did or not until those parts of the story. I don't hate it, it was just a bit surprising.