How It All Started (Carl Boulais)

Title: How All This Started, Author: Pete Fromm, Publisher: Picador USA New York. Pages: 305
I decided to read this book because when I had read about the book it sounded like a very interesting book to read. When I heard that a brother and a sister who lived in Texas right in the middle of nowhere, turned to each other to run away because of hearing their father complain about how all this started, it had me interested in how these two kids run away.
A troubled family moves into Texas hoping to find a new life there. But when the family decides to move to Texas, they moved into the middle of nowhere. The brother and sister already don’t like their parents but when they noticed that they moved into the middle of no where, they begin to dislike them even more. Fifteen-year-old Austin Scheer is a gifted baseball pitcher who wants to become the next great thing in baseball. Austins sister who wantd to play in the with the pros, was a good coach to him and helped him pitch as well as help him get through living with his parents. Abilene isn't about to let her brother miss his chance, so she spends her evenings training Austin. Though her devotion to her brother is extravagant, her training tactics are very hard, calling into question her real motive. It becomes very clear that Abilene's mood swings are dangerous and that, under her influence, Austin may lose his chance for any career in baseball.
The audience of this book would people that like a long book with a very good story line. This also would be directed to young teens to older adults who may have had trouble living or are currently having trouble living with somebody and is holding them back from their true dreams.
The writing the author uses is very descriptive and is very vivid as to what is going on. he writes in limited third person, as there is only some parts where the story is being told from a narrator. Other parts are being told by the characters themselves. He is a very good writer and makes everything very vivid so that the reader can really imagine what is going on.
On page 1, the author writes “howling gusts ripped at the corner of our house” this shows how descriptive the author writes. Also shows that out where the kids live, there are some very bad storms.
On page 2 the author writes, “if mom and dad has found us like that, we’d tell them the storm had waken me” this shows that the two kids are mischievous and make up things to tell to their parents. I can relate to that because I do that all the time.
On page 3 where the author writes, “we used her window forever; as an escape hatch” shows that the kids did not like their parents and wanted to get away so they used the windows as a way to get away from their parents.
If I had to give this book a rating, it would be a B. I would give this book a B because it was a well written book. I would also give it a B because the author did a very good job at wring the book and being very descriptive. The only reasons why this book did not get a A was because at times during the story, I could not tell what was going on at times and became confusing. This book also only received a B, because at times the story could get boring. Other than those things, this book was an overall book and was fun to read. I would recommend this book to a friend.