I often get books because I like the title or the cover. Sometimes
it’s recommended by a friend, or get it as a gift. Other times it’s offered as
a book for review in one of the programs in which I participate. I don’t remember
the circumstances behind Heroic: The
Surprising Path to True Manhood (by Bill Dalvaux, B&H Books, 2019), and
it sat in the pile of ‘to be read’ for several weeks before I got around to picking
it up.
It was a fairly easy read, and filled with lots of anecdotes
from the author’s personal experience, but I didn’t find anything new from many
other men’s ministry books that I’ve read over the past 20 years. Likewise,
there was nothing that I found that reminded me of something exciting from the
other books that I’ve read. Some of the examples that he came up with seemed a
little ‘foo-foo’ for a book about true manhood.
Bottom line, for me there was nothing to either really like
or really dislike in this book.
3/5
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