Review of Beyond the Higher Ground
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Review of Beyond the Higher Ground
[Following is a volunteer review of "Beyond the Higher Ground" by Thomas A. Brigger.]
Life and death have been two opposite and mysterious concepts like light and darkness. One begins flawlessly, full of promises, but as a person ages with time, the other seems to be edging closer than ever, threatening to end the former’s boisterous achievements. In most tragic cases, death swoops in too early that you can neither believe it nor have time to prepare for it. This kind is the most painful of all, you never saw it coming and even worse: you could have never saved the person’ even if you wanted to.
You can never fathom that he builds dreadful places like prisons for a kind and thoughtful person like Tucker Mason. He is sent to Wells County, Virginia to build one, in mind that this would be a quick easy job. However, after losing his beloved wife, his living arrangements become a nuisance as he decides to buy a house whose owners had previously died in it. It turns out that his neighbors are strange people who constantly ask him to leave and never return. These warnings are accompanied by a couple of vandalism acts and a horrific display of depravity: which in a sick way, open up doubts and wounds of old in Tuck’s life. Little does he know, there is more to uncover than just a warning to stay away from his new home.
Beyond the Higher Ground is a beautiful heartfelt piece of work that merges a lot of issues plaguing society for a long time. Thomas A. Brigger brings to life many a man’s struggles to live and push past their problems and doubts to survive. In his storytelling, he develops Tuck’s character into an idol for future generations as he struggles past his poor childhood and his recent loss. The emotional delivery and imagery are quite potent, one can imagine the trouble and tribulations each character, good or bad, in the book goes through. I loved the way the author gives a historical background of the characters and situations in the book, giving the reader a sense of direction and time.
The use of local dialect and mode of speaking is very interesting, you can place southern sounding voices with the characters’ faces in your mind. I would not perceive their grammatical problems as errors as that is the manner of speech of a given character. I could not find any negative aspect to this book. Despite the speech errors, this book appears to be professionally edited as I came across no errors. The book does contain some profanity, though it is relevant to the plot of the story. For the above reasons, I am happy to award this book four out of four stars.
I recommend this book to an audience of mature teens and adults as it contains some graphic and trigger content. The author has taken his time to address drug and substance abuse in the workplace and its detrimental effects. He has also addressed the importance of proper parenting and how childhood scars can still affect adults in their later years. This book can be read after a long day at school or work for a bit of relaxation and education.
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Beyond the Higher Ground
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Life and death have been two opposite and mysterious concepts like light and darkness. One begins flawlessly, full of promises, but as a person ages with time, the other seems to be edging closer than ever, threatening to end the former’s boisterous achievements. In most tragic cases, death swoops in too early that you can neither believe it nor have time to prepare for it. This kind is the most painful of all, you never saw it coming and even worse: you could have never saved the person’ even if you wanted to.
You can never fathom that he builds dreadful places like prisons for a kind and thoughtful person like Tucker Mason. He is sent to Wells County, Virginia to build one, in mind that this would be a quick easy job. However, after losing his beloved wife, his living arrangements become a nuisance as he decides to buy a house whose owners had previously died in it. It turns out that his neighbors are strange people who constantly ask him to leave and never return. These warnings are accompanied by a couple of vandalism acts and a horrific display of depravity: which in a sick way, open up doubts and wounds of old in Tuck’s life. Little does he know, there is more to uncover than just a warning to stay away from his new home.
Beyond the Higher Ground is a beautiful heartfelt piece of work that merges a lot of issues plaguing society for a long time. Thomas A. Brigger brings to life many a man’s struggles to live and push past their problems and doubts to survive. In his storytelling, he develops Tuck’s character into an idol for future generations as he struggles past his poor childhood and his recent loss. The emotional delivery and imagery are quite potent, one can imagine the trouble and tribulations each character, good or bad, in the book goes through. I loved the way the author gives a historical background of the characters and situations in the book, giving the reader a sense of direction and time.
The use of local dialect and mode of speaking is very interesting, you can place southern sounding voices with the characters’ faces in your mind. I would not perceive their grammatical problems as errors as that is the manner of speech of a given character. I could not find any negative aspect to this book. Despite the speech errors, this book appears to be professionally edited as I came across no errors. The book does contain some profanity, though it is relevant to the plot of the story. For the above reasons, I am happy to award this book four out of four stars.
I recommend this book to an audience of mature teens and adults as it contains some graphic and trigger content. The author has taken his time to address drug and substance abuse in the workplace and its detrimental effects. He has also addressed the importance of proper parenting and how childhood scars can still affect adults in their later years. This book can be read after a long day at school or work for a bit of relaxation and education.
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Beyond the Higher Ground
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon | on iTunes
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