My first impression of Three Day Road by Joseph Borden is that it is well written. The author does not stay too long on one topic travelling from the past to present leaving you to wonder what is to come in the next chapter. Three Day Road started out by telling of Xavier's past as a child in which he teaches Elijia to hunt and shoot. The book moves on to the future where Xavier has returned from war; he has no leg and has a bullet hole through his upper arm. In this way, the author is good at creating suspense.
What I want to know is when Xavier loses his leg and gets shot in the arm and along with that what happened to Elijah as he has not been heard of except for in Xavier's memories. Sometimes it is funny to see Xavier's and Elijah's point of view to our world because they do not understand how cars work or why planes fly. What I like about the book is that Xavier and Elijah make something of themselves in the military. I think that becoming a sniper helped them gain respect and being a sniper I think they can help out the Canadians more than as just foot soldiers.
I believe that Xavier could become more as a sniper and as a man but there is something holding him back because of this he hides in Elijah's shadow. I predict that at some point in the book Xavier will come out of his friends shadow and be the hero for taking control and making the right decisions. I believe he will do this because all the troops already know he is a better shot than Elijah and the short blonde highlander; he is just not letting himself be the best sniper because he does not like to kill people even if they are the German enemy.
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