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The Dawnwalker Cycle #1
Dawnwalker
College and the years just afterwards are pivotal for many people, establishing their lives, and sometimes having many adventures along the way. Sophomore Randy Clark wants to avoid the family business and learn how to white water kayak and raft and ride a surfboard. Physical education major Crystal Chladek wants to become a professional outdoor bum, and her super-geek roommate and best friend Myleigh Harris wants to be a college English lit professor. Randy's high school girlfriend doesn't know what she wants to do other than run a summer camp for kids. All three girls end up as Randy's sometimes girlfriends, and life starts to get interesting. Four very different people facing very different futures. Can their special friendship survive the problems and distances of the real world? Readers interested in outdoor sports will love this story
849 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 9, 2011
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May 8, 2012
In this, in my opinion one of if not the best of the books Mr Boyd has written (and they are all good) we meet Crystal Chladek, Myleigh Harris and Randy Clark. The story begins with Karin, Crystals mother starting her one big adventure, a rafting trip down the Grand Canyon. A canyon romance with Al Buck occurs and then Karin goes back to Chicago and ends up married to Pete Chladek.
We then meet Crystal, Myleigh and Randy in college where Crystal is an outdoor nut who loves anything to do with the outdoors, be it rafting, rock climbing, surfing, hiking, you name it. Randy who while he loves the outdoors is not as avid about it as Crystal and Myleigh, who believes the outdoors is that area she must walk through between buildings, is a very studious girl working on her doctorate in English Lit and speaks like someone from the 18th century. It tells how the two girls who are so different could be roommates, best friends and closer than sisters and how Randy becomes first a friend and then a lover to both of them. It tells about their lives when they leave college and go their separate ways but are also available to help each other through the good times and bad.
Mr Boyd has written a book about three people who could very well be real, their good times and bad, how different situations caused each person to do and be what they are and if you like books that can make you happy, sad and mad at different times, this is one for you.
To me Mr Boyds books is somewhat like the potato chip ad in that you can't read just one. Once you start you want to see what happens next with the different characters and their friends and family.
We then meet Crystal, Myleigh and Randy in college where Crystal is an outdoor nut who loves anything to do with the outdoors, be it rafting, rock climbing, surfing, hiking, you name it. Randy who while he loves the outdoors is not as avid about it as Crystal and Myleigh, who believes the outdoors is that area she must walk through between buildings, is a very studious girl working on her doctorate in English Lit and speaks like someone from the 18th century. It tells how the two girls who are so different could be roommates, best friends and closer than sisters and how Randy becomes first a friend and then a lover to both of them. It tells about their lives when they leave college and go their separate ways but are also available to help each other through the good times and bad.
Mr Boyd has written a book about three people who could very well be real, their good times and bad, how different situations caused each person to do and be what they are and if you like books that can make you happy, sad and mad at different times, this is one for you.
To me Mr Boyds books is somewhat like the potato chip ad in that you can't read just one. Once you start you want to see what happens next with the different characters and their friends and family.
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