Andrew Klavan, If We Survive 11 likes Like It's always the voice of God they try to silence first. I had just killed a man. Klavan turns up the heat for YA fiction, and this book will be a hot Christmas gift this season. Andrew Klavan, If We Survive 13 likes Like Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. The best part is the narrator, a sort of more hopeful and kindhearted Holden Caulfield, who finds himself in binds that lead him to make tough choices in the heat of the moment: ∺nd IWill Petersonsixteen years oldfrom the quiet little town of Spencers Grove, California. Marine, the group navigates everything from snakes to firing squads to escape the country. Stealing, hiding, rebelling and all at the age of eight. Extensive early character description slows the storys takeoff characters efficiently develop in action by conquering fears and bonding while being chased by rebel leader Mendoza. A boy with no name, no family, and no record of his past is doing all he can to survive during World War ll.
Will has a jaded view of the group, until building a wall for an orphanage turns into a rush for survival in a fictional Central American country crumbling into civil war. (Dec.Two-time Edgar Awardwinner Klavan (True Crime) works the YA category with a gripping story narrated by Will Peterson, a teen on a youth mission trip. Klavan is a novelist ( Darling Clementine ) and a mystery writer under the pseudonyms Keith Peterson and Margaret Tracy. Mary Magdalene's bawdy running monologue functions as a Greek chorus of sorts, strewn with four-letter words and Joycean erotic fantasies that seem merely gratuitous. Judas, a smooth-talking conniver, has ecstatic sex with Mary Magdalene later he repents his lethal betrayal of his friend Jesus and commits suicide. Jesus's inner turmoil, his doubts and visions are telegraphed through lyrical poems that don't mesh with the novelistic framework.
The Nazarene's story is narrated through alternating, quasi-apocryphal gospels that affect an almost Biblical diction. A restless man of wisdom, he spreads enlightenment by his presence.
His Jesus is born naturally and promptly circumcised he dislikes his bullying older brother, gets bored with the family workshop and discovers his true calling almost by accident. Klavan's imaginative reconstruction of the life and death of Jesus is a sporadically interesting failure.
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