How To Find Your Way In The Dark

De: Derek B. Miller

Narrado por: Michael Crouch

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Engaging and clever story

The story will keep you engaged as you follow the ups and downs of Sheldon and Lenny. Great plot and writing and I learned some things about this dark time in American history.

Wish I hadn't read it so I could read it again

This is by far my favorite audible book although the description of the plot about a 12 year old boy intent on revenge did not seem promising. But then readers are introduced to Sheldon Horowitz.

I love Sheldon

Marvelous book, sad, happy, hilarious and uplifting. If, like me, you loved Norwegian Nights, this is well worth the listen.

Coming of Age

you will easily be pulled into the story that will take you down paths littered with crime,passion, patratizom and forgiveness.

Uneven

The novel gets off to a gripping, rip-roaring start. Sheldon is astonishing, bold, clever; you root for him all the way through and get great satisfaction when he succeeds. He's a character I hope to see in a third and even fourth novel. The story gives a sweeping, true, and important look at Jewish life and its many challenges in the eastern United States, circa 1930s to 1947.

But it gets rocky. Keen suspense gets bogged down in over-explanation. In the middle of a crisis, the author writes in thoughts that are both improbable and take much longer to hear than the action would to take place. The over-writing gets annoying, especially when the author seems so in love with his own research that he includes pages of unnecessary information, only some of which is relevant to the novel. Worst of all is an act of gratuitous violence (which I can't say much about without a major spoiler) that destroys the significance and meaning of essential elements of the book. Miller could have handled it very differently and still achieve the plot point he needed. It's a tremendous flaw.

I recommend it, but I also recommend that Miller's editor do a better job of editing. Even the best-loved authors shouldn't get away with inferior work just because they have the power of fame.