The Silent Road by S.N. Mckibben – Review by Micalah Weatherholtz

The Silent Road by S.N. McKibben
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Silent Road is about a guy named Dan who is working through a divorce, trying to manage his daughter, his job, and everything seems to be piling onto him all at once, especially when he is pulled over and for the first time is unable to talk his way out of a ticket, having his truck impounded, and being escorted back to his home base by a police officer. Dan hasn’t gotten a license or his CDL’s due to being dyslexic but nobody has paid enough attention, until now, to him to notice. I originally picked this book up for that reason, I come from a family of truckers, and they meet a big part of our nations needs. If I had carefully read the book blurb and realized that this involved a male to male relationship I probably wouldn’t have picked it up just because that’s usually not my scene but if I hadn’t I would have missed out on a good book. I definitely enjoyed reading about Dans transformation, from an openly aggressive homophobe, to an openly gay man, after some of the things he witnesses Jake go through on the road and how much he had changed toward the end of the book and was willing to admit his faults and do better if Jake would just give him a chance. This was a book that covered some tough subjects from an original, well written point of view.

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