In modern day Utah, a struggling widower and father, Jim Hawkins finds himself caught in a terrifying situation that could destroy him and his family.
But by the time you're 16, it's probably not worth the time. Having said that, I doubt your typical 10-12 year old cares much about any of that, and it's probably a good book for kids that age to be reading. To sum up, this book is a half-decent story line wrapped up in a bunch of reference to scripture, a little creative license, and mounds of religious cliche with very little substance. It's endless babble and cliche and pure drudgery to read. And his commentary on religious topics is some of the worst I've read. I also had a hard time deciding if Heimerdinger was trying to write a novel, a memoir, or a sermon. It was so sadly predictable that you could guess what was going to happen 30 pages ahead of yourself. It really isn't a very impressive writing style.Īnother problem with this book is that is has the exact same plot progression as the books preceding it. So you get the story from the perspective of one person, but that one person knows all the details and thoughts of every person around him or her. What makes it worse is that Heimerdinger appears to have one writing style, and that is first person omniscient. The problem is so bad that he has to use different type sets to distinguish between narrators and I still had a hard time telling them apart.
But he doesn't do a very good job of giving the narrators different voices. Heimerdinger split up the action in these books which required the use of two narrators. So let me just make it clear that this is a terrible book. I was kind of disappointed that there weren't more. Having looked through the reviews, all 18 pages of them, I've found only 6 reviewers that rate this book below 3.
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