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Although the book is a remarkable story of overcoming adversity for the family as well as the son, the story is difficult to read from the very opening of the first chapter. It took me a while to place the event in time and history because the author does not paint a good enough background of where or when this took place. Only till well into the end of the first chapter did I figure out that the story took place in the state of Florida.
Because it’s difficult to place the story from the beginning you feel like you start in chapter two as if chapter one is missing the beginning information. The other issue about how the book is written is that it is too technical in its description of the disease and emergency treatment that takes place. There is way to much medical terminology in describing the initial trauma and discovery of the impact the disease was having on the son’s body.
It seemed as if the author got away from the human side of what was taking place when he was describing the procedure for treating the disease. The affect of having too much description of the procedure involved will cause the average ready to skip through a lot of the first chapter because they are unfamiliar with many of the medical terms and procedures that are described. Once laboring through the first part of the book the reader is able to connect to the human side of trial and triumph the young boy and his families experience.
Overall I feel that the average reader will find the book difficult from the start due to what I have described and will lose interest (as I did) in the book as a result. If the author rewrote the first of the book with a better introduction of the family and surrounding setting and reduced the medical terminology and acronyms the book would end up being a more enjoyable read.
Review by Robert Hernandez
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