Review of Strong Heart
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Review of Strong Heart
[Following is a volunteer review of "Strong Heart" by Charlie Sheldon.]
Strong Heart by Charlie Sheldon is a book about Sarah a 13-year-old girl who doesn’t seem to fit or be wanted around most of her family, that’s how she ends up with Tom her grandfather who takes her in. The timing couldn’t be better, Tom, his friend Willeye and Willeye’s daughter Myra are preparing for a hike into the Olympic national park in order to visit Tom’s grandfather’s grave. After giving it some thought they decide to take her on the trip because it might be the last opportunity to do it before the mining takes over the place, at least they can show her some of the native American culture she makes part of.
What start as a road to forgetting ends up being a road to discovery, one that has a very peculiar way of telling it, that’s how the writer introduce us into a journey inside the journey, one that will provide answers to the characters in the story but will also be product of the spiritual realms that revolves around native American history.
The book has many positive aspects, for starters the author makes an amazing job introducing us into the different spaces and times, you can definitely see that he has been there and also has gathered a lot of information about the culture itself. Especially when he takes us back in time and shows us the way the ancestors went through, that for me might be the star of the story itself. When you are reading you can at times see those places, the dangers they are facing and the beauty and chaos of it all.
However, this is a story that has a lack of character development. Leaving Sarah aside, we barely see the characters changing perspectives, we see many of them but their personalities are so similar that you can easily lose feeling or connection to them, even makes you wonder how necessary are they really for the story. Another aspect that may not be the best is the way they abruptly end it without really resolving anything, it takes us on such a long trip that we are kind of expecting something more to happen at the end.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars, because it drove us perfectly trough the path they were on, with each page you feel the need to keep reading. It might be the fact that he told part of it as is it was fantasy or the fact that even if most characters don’t work in the best way, with Sarah it’s the opposite, you can really connect to her, and understand what she is going through. I also love the approach of her characterization during the events that she lives in the spiritual realm, it`s like she finally belongs somewhere.
This is a book that will definitely call the attention of anyone with an interest on native American culture, nature itself or simply someone who wants to read something that has been well investigated but in an informal way, it will feel as if you are part of an adventure.
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Strong Heart
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Strong Heart by Charlie Sheldon is a book about Sarah a 13-year-old girl who doesn’t seem to fit or be wanted around most of her family, that’s how she ends up with Tom her grandfather who takes her in. The timing couldn’t be better, Tom, his friend Willeye and Willeye’s daughter Myra are preparing for a hike into the Olympic national park in order to visit Tom’s grandfather’s grave. After giving it some thought they decide to take her on the trip because it might be the last opportunity to do it before the mining takes over the place, at least they can show her some of the native American culture she makes part of.
What start as a road to forgetting ends up being a road to discovery, one that has a very peculiar way of telling it, that’s how the writer introduce us into a journey inside the journey, one that will provide answers to the characters in the story but will also be product of the spiritual realms that revolves around native American history.
The book has many positive aspects, for starters the author makes an amazing job introducing us into the different spaces and times, you can definitely see that he has been there and also has gathered a lot of information about the culture itself. Especially when he takes us back in time and shows us the way the ancestors went through, that for me might be the star of the story itself. When you are reading you can at times see those places, the dangers they are facing and the beauty and chaos of it all.
However, this is a story that has a lack of character development. Leaving Sarah aside, we barely see the characters changing perspectives, we see many of them but their personalities are so similar that you can easily lose feeling or connection to them, even makes you wonder how necessary are they really for the story. Another aspect that may not be the best is the way they abruptly end it without really resolving anything, it takes us on such a long trip that we are kind of expecting something more to happen at the end.
I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars, because it drove us perfectly trough the path they were on, with each page you feel the need to keep reading. It might be the fact that he told part of it as is it was fantasy or the fact that even if most characters don’t work in the best way, with Sarah it’s the opposite, you can really connect to her, and understand what she is going through. I also love the approach of her characterization during the events that she lives in the spiritual realm, it`s like she finally belongs somewhere.
This is a book that will definitely call the attention of anyone with an interest on native American culture, nature itself or simply someone who wants to read something that has been well investigated but in an informal way, it will feel as if you are part of an adventure.
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Strong Heart
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
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