Reviews for Sooner or later

The average rating for Sooner or later based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-02-16 00:00:00 Geno Orum Sonny house of spies is a nonfiction book about family drama. Sonny's dad leaves when he's very young and his family is left to fend for themselves. Sonny then gets a job at a donut shop with his uncle to support the family. One day Sonny finds a note from his dad to his uncle, Marty and the address is just the city next to his. So he leaves his house and rides a bus to his dad's city but he finds out it was just a post office not his house. He goes home and asks his uncle why he hadn't to him they were in touch and Marty says they'll talk about it later. So an hour later after the shop closes he meets him and finds out his dad left because he liked another man. He also finds out that Marty is gay and that he liked his father. The next day after sonny promised not to tell his mom his shop burned down and he died. Sonnys dad came over that day to attend the funeral and every one was mad at him. 5 years later sonny gets a call from his dad and gives the phone to his mom and he never know what he said except that it made her less tale rent for disrespect. I would give this book a five out of ten. It was good but it was too confusing or boring. There wasn't even any action just more and more information being found out. I would recommend this book for nonfiction readers boys and girls ages 13-15. I think I was a little too young too under stand the content and that it would mean more to a little bit bigger. The vocabulary was not to advanced and a ten year old could read it but probably not understand what's going on.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-07-05 00:00:00 David Dove It's the 1947, in a small town in Alabama and Sonny's dad has just walked out on them. "You don't know my daddy," the book begins, and Sonny tells the reader of the day his life changed. He knows there has to be something more to the split up than he has been told, and it puzzles him. A few years go by, and the reader sees small town Southern life through Sonny's eyes as he tries to handle his own life without a father, as well as every day living with his sometimes funny, sometimes difficult family. Sonny deals with heartbreak, pain, and love, familial and otherwise, and at last finds peace within himself regarding his father. Sadly, this brief synopsis does nothing for the book. Telling a skeleton outline of the plot with no spoilers and none of Lyon's amazing writing is so unjust! This is an amazing book, with prose that sometimes verges on poetry. Lyon had me laughing out loud with Sonny's predicaments on one page, near tears on another, and spellbound from the sheer beauty of her language so often. She captures the feel of the South so well and so subtly that there are bound to be references that will pass by those uninitiated to Southern culture. I couldn't NOT share a few lines that caught me especially: "It was a sleepy kind of morning, the air like bathwater." "Like some reversible cloth, Mama's laughter flipped over into sobs." "We just stood by the shiny gray coffin with its handles like fancy toilet-paper holders and said "Yes" and "No" and "Thank you" and breathed whatever breaths came by: mint, onion, tobacco, whiskey, and bad." "All the windows had been propped open, but it was one of those afternoons when the air lay on top of you like a big cat, and no waving of cardboard Jesus-at-the-door fans could make it get up and move." My main regret is that I fear the intended audience will not be interested in the subject and that some of the emotional dilemmas may really be too mature for grades 5-8. It would be more appropriate, I think, for older YA readers. I would suggest that a parent of younger readers read it first (I give it a full recommendation for all adult readers) and then decide when/if it's appropriate for their child at that age. Another quibble is that the dust jacket blurb is not very appealing; I only chose to read it because it took place in the South. I really can't see a child picking this up and saying, "oh, this sounds just what I've been wanting to read". It will most likely take an adult pushing it on them to get a child to read it. A new, more interesting cover would be advised. But, as far as the book goes. . . It's a five star read for older YAs and adults. Masterful writing all the way through; I will be looking up her other novels right away.