David+H

=David H's 9th Grade Book Review=

In the book **No Country For Old Men** by Cormac McCarthy a man named Llewelyn Moss was hunting antelope around the Rio Grande when he stumbled upon what looks to be a drug deal gone bad that had resulted in everyone at the scene being dead. Upon observing the scene Moss finds a truck load of heroin and a suitcase containing two million dollars in cash. Moss leaves the heroin at the scene, and takes the suitcase realizing the money will change his life forever. But a few days after Moss finds the money, two more people find the massacre in the desert as well. The first is an insane criminal who had recently escaped from prison named Chigurh who only desires the money to fuel his greed, and Sheriff Bell a local Texas sheriff looking to assist Moss and prevent him from getting involved with this affair any further than he already is. Soon afterwards the story takes a huge turn and turns into an all out blood war to search for and obtain the two million dollars Moss has found and is in possession of. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in action stories with suspenseful elements mixed in with it. I personally enjoyed reading this book because I am the type of person who loves action filled stories and suspenseful elements and this book had just that. These elements kept me hook to the story on every page and I never wanted to put this book down. I also enjoyed how the author had each individual character have his or her own specific personality; no two characters were alike in any way. And when I was reading the story it seemed like the characters were almost real because their personalities were so realistic. Each of these different factors contributed to a strong structured book. Although it seems like this book had the perfect story and elements behind it, there was still one thing that the story could do without. The main thing was that it jumped around to different characters to often. It seemed like I would be reading one chapter about one of the characters and then in the next chapter it would be about another character and would take place in a completely different scene or setting. This made it sometimes very difficult to keep up with the story and there were actually a few times where I had to re-read a chapter or two because the plot was no longer making sense. But once I re-read the chapter it made sense and covered the entire plot. Other than that this was a book that I truly enjoyed and will probably still enjoy if and when I eventually read it again. So if someone asked me a book to recommend them, I would immediately recommend this book and assure them they will enjoy it as well as I did.