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Review by khemkavineeta -- Strong Heart by Charlie Sheldon
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The book Strong Heart written by Charlie Sheldon is a good fictional book for all the adventure and history lovers. The book is a wonderful combination of history, adventure, and a fictional story which I believe that people of all ages would love to read. I rate this book 3 out of 4.
It is a story of a young girl and her grandfather and their friends. Tom decides to go on a hike with their friends but the situation changes when her 13 years old granddaughter, Sarah, shows up on his doorstep while Tom had no clue about her existence. A hiking trip that started taking along Sarah as a burden ended with Sarah leading the trail. With her tenacity and attention to detail, this 13 years old kid becomes their only hope in preserving a could-be historical site.
The journey explained in the novel beautifully showcases the evolving relationship between Sarah and Tom. It elaborates extensively the history of the park where the protagonists went hiking. Tom's story and Myra's attachment with the park and its native people give the story an emotional touch which helps the reader to feel associated. Not only this, but the different historical theories explained in the novel about from where the first people came, are interesting. Myra and Sergie's conversations are fascinating. Their conflicting opinions on the origin of humans where one supports and believes the data available and the other gives weightage to the stories passed on to generations, are exciting to read. How both of their opinions changed over time in the novel is also something that I loved, symbolizing that data and legends both are equally important and cannot be neglected. The short sentences and clearly written background of each character makes the novel easy to understand. Also, it's wonderfully edited.
However, I felt that the ending of the novel was a bit incomplete. While the story, since the beginning, takes you on an adrenaline journey from finding the antique atlatl to the Buckhorn's people destroying it, in the end, it gives you no information that how the protagonists survived and whether they were able to prove the park as an archeological site or not. The story leaves you with so many questions like whether Sarah's adventure when she was missing was true or just a fragment of her imagination. If it was true where were those people? Moreover, the story says that Sarah was missing for just eight days, though Sarah's narrative describes a journey of a month. While all the main characters of the story point various aspects of Sarah's journey to understand if it was true or not, nobody seems to question that how can she have a journey a month long.
I loved reading the book for its emphasis on history and easily understandable language. But, I would have enjoyed it more had the ending been a little more explanatory. In the end, as a reader, I felt a little unsatisfied as I wanted to know the truth behind Sarah's journey. I wanted to know if Buckhorn failed in his attempts or not. I wanted to know how they can have encountered the giant beers which are already extinct. The start and the middle part of the book are wonderful but the end leaves you hanging.
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The book Strong Heart written by Charlie Sheldon is a good fictional book for all the adventure and history lovers. The book is a wonderful combination of history, adventure, and a fictional story which I believe that people of all ages would love to read. I rate this book 3 out of 4.
It is a story of a young girl and her grandfather and their friends. Tom decides to go on a hike with their friends but the situation changes when her 13 years old granddaughter, Sarah, shows up on his doorstep while Tom had no clue about her existence. A hiking trip that started taking along Sarah as a burden ended with Sarah leading the trail. With her tenacity and attention to detail, this 13 years old kid becomes their only hope in preserving a could-be historical site.
The journey explained in the novel beautifully showcases the evolving relationship between Sarah and Tom. It elaborates extensively the history of the park where the protagonists went hiking. Tom's story and Myra's attachment with the park and its native people give the story an emotional touch which helps the reader to feel associated. Not only this, but the different historical theories explained in the novel about from where the first people came, are interesting. Myra and Sergie's conversations are fascinating. Their conflicting opinions on the origin of humans where one supports and believes the data available and the other gives weightage to the stories passed on to generations, are exciting to read. How both of their opinions changed over time in the novel is also something that I loved, symbolizing that data and legends both are equally important and cannot be neglected. The short sentences and clearly written background of each character makes the novel easy to understand. Also, it's wonderfully edited.
However, I felt that the ending of the novel was a bit incomplete. While the story, since the beginning, takes you on an adrenaline journey from finding the antique atlatl to the Buckhorn's people destroying it, in the end, it gives you no information that how the protagonists survived and whether they were able to prove the park as an archeological site or not. The story leaves you with so many questions like whether Sarah's adventure when she was missing was true or just a fragment of her imagination. If it was true where were those people? Moreover, the story says that Sarah was missing for just eight days, though Sarah's narrative describes a journey of a month. While all the main characters of the story point various aspects of Sarah's journey to understand if it was true or not, nobody seems to question that how can she have a journey a month long.
I loved reading the book for its emphasis on history and easily understandable language. But, I would have enjoyed it more had the ending been a little more explanatory. In the end, as a reader, I felt a little unsatisfied as I wanted to know the truth behind Sarah's journey. I wanted to know if Buckhorn failed in his attempts or not. I wanted to know how they can have encountered the giant beers which are already extinct. The start and the middle part of the book are wonderful but the end leaves you hanging.
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Strong Heart
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