Can brothers really chose good books to read? Books that even their sisters will enjoy? I am living proof that actually, yes, sometimes brothers do have excellent choice.
Once upon a time, I didn’t believe that was true, so when my little brother started pestering me to read this awesome book he had discovered, I flatly refused. So, like a good brother, he set to work tormenting and teasing me and all around making my life miserable until finally I stole the book from his room and read it in the privacy of my bedroom with the intention of frightening him by quoting verbatim from this book I had supposedly never read (Just a note for clarity, I was fifteen and he was ten. We don’t act like that anymore. Usually).
It turns out that I enjoyed The Boy Colonel so much that I confessed that I was wrong and that he did possess a very good book, so our battle ended peacefully and we sat down together and hashed over all the good parts of the book (We learned to have some respect for each other’s reading opinions after that, and nowadays if he says a book is good, I believe him. Usually).
Since Caleb got book four in the series for Christmas this year, The Mountain Fortress: Escape to the Outback sat on my bookshelf for nearly all of January. First it took me a long time to get around to reading it, and then after I did finish it, I forgot to bring it back to him, but he was nice and didn’t give me any library fines.
My Take on the Men of Grit Series
Rather than spoil book four for you, I decided to feature the entire series in this review. The Men of Grit Series must be read in order to make complete sense, although books one and two can be switched around with no confusion. That’s how I read them.
The Men of Grit series is set in the 1830s and treks all across the globe (I’m usually not a fan of the traveling kind of book, but I am this time). The main feature of a John J. Horn book is definitely the eccentric and the unexpected. That includes mysteries, shocking discoveries, bad guys, kidnappings, a bit of romance, and more.
Also, John J. Horn is a very solid Christian author, and his writing reflects that. His books battle some difficult issues, but all without causing the story’s pace to lag.
In book one, Brothers at Arms, Lawrence and Chester Stoning might be twins, but their personalities are anything but similar. Lawrence prefers the library and Chester prefers the outdoors. Lawrence studies Latin while Chester studies fighting techniques. But when they are thrust into an adventure that requires them to protect a young woman in danger, they must learn to trust each other and to accept one another’s differences–or the enemy closing in on them may end all their lives.
Find the Men of Grit Series here:
Book 1: Brothers at Arms: Treasure and Treachery in the Amazon
Book 2: The Boy Colonel: A Soldier Without a Name