The River

This book is well done, and I liked it. The author did an amazing job of describing both the setting and the events of the story in a way that drew me in and kept me in the story. The story itself is a page-turner with the right amount of description so that you understand what is going on and what the characters are feeling. Great book, would make for great book club discussions I think, as the characters dealt with so much and had quite a few moral dilemmas and decisions to make.

This is an enjoyable, well-written book.
I found the plot to be slow at first but was well paced once the action started to pick up.
It contains lots of interesting themes: the violence that people are capable of; man vs. nature; the impact of choices; how a person's past colors his/her world-view.
I wish there was more development of the side characters, but for the length of the book, it is a solid read.