5.0 out of 5 stars
Restores Your Faith in Humanity
ByG. Robinsonon January 30, 2018
Format: Kindle Edition
I never thought I’d be interested in a coming-of-age book about a boxer, but the writer of this book created a world that was heartwarming and completely absorbing. The main character deals with a deep rage from a tragic event in childhood and the shame and burden of alcoholic parents, but the compassion and deep caring of others changes his life. The underlying rage doesn’t dissipate, but it becomes transformed and fuels his success as a professional boxer.

The author is a great storyteller combining both the sweetness and grit of life and recalling a way of life in a simpler time, but one that was as full of good and evil as the present. Every day events are told in a way that make them vivid and remarkable. The author created a world I wanted to live in. In fact, I did live in it during my reading of the book and will likely re-read it to return to that world. It’s much like our world, but with more love and warmth. A sweet thread of romance runs through the book along with a backbone of strength of a friend whose support and caring never falters.

This is a book that will make you look at life through a different lens. It’s deceptively simple in its narrative, but the characters’ emotions are so raw and unfiltered that you engage deeply with them. I wanted to live in their world and for a time I did. It is a book I will return to read again and again.