Revolver Paperback – September 27, 2011

This book is fun and cool to read and It was amazing I read it in 2 nights at the end he get the revolver and we'll your just going to need to read it to find out

My name is Jack and this is a book that we could choose from in our summer reading program .The title of this book is Revolver. I am definitely not a reader, but this book was surprisingly very good and interesting to me. This book starts of by giving you the bare facts that helps your understanding of the book. Sig and Anna, the main characters, are stuck in the middle of nowhere in the artic with the dead corpse of their father. A bear like man named Wolf who has been stalking and following their family for 10 years confronts Sig and Anna asking them for their father's gold. He holds them at gunpoint, but they have absolutely no idea what gold he is talking about. They must work together to escape this man and get to the gun that is held in the small wooden box.This book will leave you with surprises, suspense and action throughout the whole book. Some examples of this are when they figure out that there father has stolen gold and been running from Wolf for years, and what Sig ends up doing with the revolver. The thing I enjoyed most about this book was the layout. There were so many different things going and they all end up coming together and making perfect sense in the end. Also, at the end of the chapters, you would be left hanging. This would make you want to read more and more. Some things I didn't really like about this book were the random flashbacks that would confuse you. This made it hard to figure out what was happening.The main characters in this book were strong characters. The author really created interesting personalities for each of them. As an example, Wolf was mean, big, and obsessive about the money that he believed should be his.After reading Revolver, I have some unanswered questions. What happened to Wolf at the end of the book? Who killed Anna and Sig's mother? There could be some improvements made to this book to help it read more smoothly. The author could have italicized the flashback parts to help the reader understand more clearly. There were some important quotes that were stated in this book. One of my favorites is "even the dead tell stories." This quote is very important because Sig's father said it before he died. This told Sig that he would learn something after his father died. The 2nd quote is "a gun is not a weapon, it's an answer." This is the most important quote because the gun is an answer to life when you have no one else to help you. The 3rd is "Never cross the lake once you have seen the hooded crow." The hooded crow only comes out when the weather is warming.Overall I would rate this book a 4 out 5 stars. This book is a great choice for someone who is looking for a short and good book. I really enjoyed this book and I hope that this helps you. Thanks for reading my review of Revolver.

This is a very good book. It tells the story of a hard life with hard decisions from a boys point of view. I would recommend this book to any young teen that is looking for an exciting read.

Revolver is part historical fiction (set in the frozen arctic in the early 1900's), part mystery (Did Sig's father steal gold from a prospector during the Alaska gold rush? If so, where is it?)and mostly a story of a young teen facing a life altering moral dilemma. Sig was raised by a stern but loving man who found ways to create a home and life for his family in unbearable conditions. His father taught him the world is a cruel place and sometimes requires cruel actions to survive. Sig was also raised by a mother and step-mother who were both very gentle, religious pacifists. When the story opens, to the family's dismay, their always careful and pragmatic father tried to cross the thawing lake, fell through the ice and died. Sig's sister and step-mother have gone to town for help. The contradictory parenting clashes when a sinister, violent man shows up at the family's arctic cabin the day after Sig's father died. Sig must deal with the angry visitor, Mr. Wolff, alone. Mr. Wolff says he will kill Sig if Sig does not turn over the gold stolen from him years before. After Sig is dead, he will wait for the sister and step-mother to return and give them the same ultimatum. Sig creates an opportunity to fetch his Dad's revolver and hide it on his person, but can he bring himself to kill Mr. Wolff? Revolver is very short and there is little action, but every page is tense with Sig's fear and Mr. Wolff's anger and the tension builds to a surprising and frightening climax.

Full of twists and turns and "hold your breath" moments, kids and adults will love this story. It elicted an actual applause at the end from the kids I read this to.