Title: Touchdown Tommy
Author: Ace Collins
Pages: 120
Year: 2016
Genre: Contemporary novel
Publisher: Elk Lake Publishing
Format: eBook (also available in paperback)
Note: I received a free eBook copy of this book through The
Book Club Network in exchange for my honest opinion.
About the book:
My life was over!
I mean really over! Here I was, a kid who’d placed second in the city tennis
tourney, a top-scoring soccer player, lots of friends, loving my life in
Chicago, and what happens? My parents were killed in an auto accident. And I
was too young to live alone, so I get shipped off to Texas to live with my
grandparents on a farm. A farm! Here I was in Hicksville with nothing to do.
Boy, was I missing my parents and my life in Chicago.
Nobody here
understood me. There’s one girl, Satara, who’s been nice, but she just doesn’t
get me either. So you wonder how I got from here to having the nickname,
Touchdown Tommy? Well, why don’t you open the book and let me tell you…
My review:
This is a
wonderful young adult novel.
Tommy Hillman is
an incredibly well developed character. The book is written from his
perspective and his feelings are so well presented early on that my heart was
breaking for him and all that he was experiencing.
In the very first
chapter his whole world, as he knew it, fell apart when his parents were killed
in a car accident. He is then launched on a journey to learn how to keep living
and build a new life. I really liked the fact that a lot of the journey was
Tommy learning to recognize what his attitude was and how it affected him as
well as everyone around him.
This story is
filled with very detailed accounts of six-man high school football games as
well as 11-man college football games. Since I’m not a fan of football a lot of
this basically went over my head. I’m sure those who love the game will
thoroughly enjoy these descriptions.
I found this book to be very entertaining. I
am recommending it and giving it a rating of 5 stars.
You can find out
more about Ace and his books on his website at: http://www.acecollins.com/
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