Book Review: "Boy Underground" By Catherine Ryan Howard

 

Catherine Ryan Hyde has shown time and again why she deserves her spot as one of my top favorite authors.

Boy Underground is another fine example of the quality of talent she possesses that comes across so eloquently for readers to enjoy.

It's never over the top or forced but it always feel like letting nature run its course. As the storms are always best weathered with a friend. The race against time is your race alone to run.
In this story we have three great guys that are about to embark on a journey that will change them forever. Nick, Suki, and Ollie are sons of field workers. It's 1941 and Steven Katz comes aboard as the son of a prominent landowner in California.

This group has quite the experience as Suki is forced to leave for an internment camp during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Ollie enlisted in the army. Nick fled for his life after his father accused him of a crime he never committed.

Steven then takes him into hiding in a cellar on the farm.
One day Nick disappears as Steven is left with little more than a letter and a lesson about love.
I cannot believe how emotionally charged this novel had become as I was reading this late into the evening hours.

The trials, tribulations, hardships, fears, sexual orientations, and gender identity was quite the eye opener as it focused on various 'levels' of acceptance.

It was understandably one of my favorites to date and it'll be interesting to see what Catherine Ryan Hyde will cook up for us next.

Thank you to Catherine, the pub, NetGalley, and Amazon Kindle for this ARC in exchange for this honest review.