Total Page : 335
Publisher : Orion
Publication Date : 2001 12
>> The Lost Boy Review
I have read this book several times and lost my original copy so ordered one on Amazon I love the story and the book is well written I applaud Dave once again
>> The Lost Boy
The Lost Boy chronicles Dave Pelzer s journey after he is removed from his mother s home and placed in foster care He is bounced around from home to home and struggles to fit in with a loving family
A part of me feels the same about this book as I did about A Child Called It that it was a good story though often punctuated by poor writing and inconsistencies With this book the story also constantly felt repetitive as well I don t mean that it was repetitive because he went from one foster home to another or anything like that but it was repetitive in the sense that I felt like I was reading the first book again
The story is told in a first person narrative and I occasionally found myself doubting the reality of the situation Dave would describe how he felt and I would find myself thinking There s no way a kid that age thinks like that Too often the details of his young life felt influenced by his adult perspective
The timeline of the novel could have been made a clearer It was rarely explained how much time he had spent at each home and at times he would go on and on about his life there and it would be only a month or he would suddenly have been somewhere for years
Despite all my complaints about this book I will say I enjoyed the actual story much more than I did during A Child Called It Not because the first was all child abuse but because this story actually held my interest Still I couldn t help constantly comparing the two I would have enjoyed The Lost Boy much more if I had never read A Child Called It
Two and a half stars
>> Great
Great follow up book for the first A Child Called It Heart wrenching story but worth every page
