Reviews for A sound like thunder

The average rating for A sound like thunder based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-06-11 00:00:00 John Higley 3.5, rounded down. So this is my tale. The imperfect recollections of Rover MacNee--scenes from that winter when I was a boy just turned sixteen. I'll help Rove to see with the eyes I've got now, but I can tell you this: growing older only put colors inside the lines I drew way back then. And old men have permission to color outside the lines. Which is the premise of this novel...the recollection of an old man about a season in his life that changed it forever. Brewer is a strongly visual writer, and I enjoyed the details about life in a waterman's town and the art of sailing. The story was well-written, but I never truly connected to a single character. It seemed more a story told from the outside looking in, than from the inside projecting out. Perhaps that is intentional, since there is an old man at the beginning of this novel telling us it is just his memory of what happened, but once the boy, Rove, took over, I would have liked to feel more connected to him. Writers generally progress as they write, but I did not feel this book was nearly as good as The Poet of Tolstoy Park. Therein lies my disappointment, I think. It never pays to go into a book with too much expectation, and I have fallen prey to that once more. I'm betting if I had read this one first it would have gotten at least another half a star.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-31 00:00:00 nathan sitko Well-read audio "coming of age" adventure about Rove and his sailboat The Seabird. A few years prior to WWII until January 1942 Rove rebuilds a sailboat, worries over his father's new 3-year drunkenness, recalls his father in better days, discovers a family secret that changes his perspective and experiences his first love. A great deal of sailing jargon that put me in the Alabama waters with Rove. Thoughtful, tender, educational and entertaining.