Copyright: 1986
On My Honor is a quick, snappy, ninety page novel without a happy ending. The novel is about two boys who go bike riding to Starved Rock, and one of them wants to climb it. Tony, the reckless one of the two, insists that they stop to swim in a river on the way there. Tony knows he can't swim, but accepts Joel's dare to swim out to the sandbar.
When Tony drowns, Joel does his best to conceal the awful truth with his own lies and stories, but in the end he is forced to confess how it was partially his own fault of his best friend's death.
This story was predictable, and focuses on the grief of the characters. It resembles the effect of one careless act or one silly mistake. The author really makes you feel the emotion of the characters as they must face the truth about they're son and friend. On My Honor is a timeless story reminding people to think twice.
Despite the emotion in the novel, its predictability is way too high, and the plot is depressing, so that you expect a sad ending. The novel was clearly not the best I have ever read.
i sooo agree with you.I hope that I NEVER have to read this book again! :(
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