Customer Reviews

Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

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A delightful, encouraging story of faith in action. It is hard to fake a come-back from great adversity. It is hard to fake a positive attitude when you have to relearn a sense of balance in an area where you were ranked among the best in the world.

There is a unique richness and honesty to a 14 year old's writing style. Bravo to the professional writers who worked with Bethany to polish this work, yet kept it hers. That is a difficult challenge, met and surmounted in this warm-hearted book. From the eye-catching cover design to the text to the photographs, this is a winner

Bravo from a Grandpa who has never been on a surfboard and whose closest encounters with sharks have been through aquarium glass, but who found this work fresh and rewarding, upbeat and honest.

I loved this book. Bethany is a hero, and amazing role model. She deserves every bit of praise she receives for all of her accomplishments, before and after the attack.

My two daughters love the movie Soul Surfer - it is their most watched film ever so far, they can recite whole scenes in the correct expressions... I love that God is honoured in this film and that it doesn't shy away from hard issues, like how bad and sad things happen in the world.

Anyway, all that to say because we love the movie I bought my girls the book. I started reading it to them and my eight year old wanted to take it to school the next day for silent reading. She is loving it and sharing about it with her friends who want to borrow it after her. I'm really pleased with it - the only thing I would suggest is that you buy a better copy - we just went for the trade paperback because it was cheapest, but I think the book will be read a lot so I wish I spent a couple of extra dollars to get a better bound edition.

I really enjoyed this book, it was very inspiring. I also enjoyed the movie tie in parts at the end, and Bethany's thoughts and experiences about the movie making process.

I was disappointed to find that this book, although 200 pages was way too easy of a read. You can tell it was written by a 13 year old. I read it from cover to cover in about 3 hours.