Stoneway

by Christopher Francis

Amazon Prices:

Paperback: $16.95

Hardcover: N/A

Kindle: $4.99

Audible: N/A

Before Reading Facts:

Stoneway by Christopher Francis was published in 2018 by Black Rose Writing.

Page Count: 204 pages (paperback) 204 (kindle) 

Audiobook length: N/A

Chapters: 34

Languages: English 

Summary of Book:

“Haunted by a boy named Riley Grayson, twelve-year-old Bentley is suddenly confronted by three things he fears the most in life: Love, Bullying, and Ghosts. While on an eighth-grade camping trip at Lake Stoneway, Bentley struggles with his fears, trying to find ways to get the attention of Michelle Heartly while stopping his best friend from picking on a new boy named Simon.” -Amazon

Author Biography:

“I am an Australian born, junior/intermediate grade school teacher with a passion for writing and illustrating children’s picture books, middle-grade and young adult novels. Growing up in Canada, I studied Classical Animation at Sheridan College before earning a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education at McMaster and York University.” -Amazon

Book Review:

Overall Book Rating: ★★★★★ / ★★★★★

I won a kindle version of this book in a Goodreads giveaway, and I was excited to read it. The description of the book and the cover drew me in, and I knew I was about to read something that would resonate with me. For the most part, I enjoyed this book. It is a quick read and one can get through it easily enough.

I will admit that there was one part that kind of threw me off. I was reading through it very comfortably until a new character was introduced. This character’s dialog threw me off a bit. I could read it and understood everything just fine, but I will admit that I had to slow down when I reached that character’s dialog. I also noted several mistakes, but they were so minor that I just read past them without any struggles.

Now, I did have so many conflicting emotions about this story. Perhaps that is what the author was going for. If so, Francis did a magnificent job! He created characters that I absolutely hated, but that was their role. I could not stand them, so I praise the author for doing an excellent job in getting the reader to hate those characters. In addition, the conflicts, both internal and external, the narrator goes through are so raw and relatable! Overall, I enjoyed this read!

Audible Review:

Narration Rating: N/A

 

Other works by this Author:

• Alex was Here
• Solving Damian Dermite
• Remembering Kaylee Cooper (Plight of Timpleville Book 3)
• Respecting Mr. Ravi (Plight of Timpleville Book 2)
• How to Sneak your Monster into School
• I don’t want to go to Sleep!
• Meeting Henry Greenfield 
• The Whispering Tree