Hakeem Roby

The Review A well-written coming of age meets literary adventure story with a theme focused on nature and it’s placed in man’s growing world, “Togwotee Passage” is a fantastic read with a full cast of characters readers will instantly connect with. The sad yet familiar story of a young child growing up in an abusive environment and forced to begin anew after a particularly explosive event hurls the readers into a new chapter of the protagonist’s life that changes their interaction with the world from that point on. The friendship between Calan and Derek throughout their expanding lives gave a deeper sense of connection with the overall theme of the novel as well. The emotional growth of these two characters as they took on life and watched as the world of man began to encroach on the natural world as a whole, perfectly illustrating the personal journey the protagonist underwent as a whole. The Verdict A heartfelt evenly paced read, author L.G. Cullen’s “Togwotee Passageâ...

No. Pointless. Gary Paulsen For the renouned author of Hatchet, 1987 was apparent a banner vintage year, in which both this and that. With 200 books, I guess many years had many books. This one is simple: a boy, a man, both trying to escape, in a broken border town. Masterful character building tells the whole tight story. I specially enjoyed how naturally their thoughts drifted, as the author shared everything with us. “Strange way to put it, he thought, and wondered why so many things in the army were strange and seem to be without meeting. […] Call everything what it wasn’t and change what it was…” (P 70) “He was back to normal lies, and Robert had heard those and done those himself. He had become so good at them now that he could tell normal lies to himself, and while he did not always believe the lies he told himself they often made him pause to be certain he was lying. The boy could tell him nothing about lying.” (P 86) The troubles and villains don’t satisfy me,...