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| Angel's Rest |
Reviewed by Diana Fields
Living in Appalachia, I am always interested in books that pertain to this region, fiction or non-fiction. Angel’s Rest written by Charles Davis is a fictional account of a young boy growing up in the mountains of Virginia in the 1960’s.
While the story kept my attention enough for me to read it straight through, it was almost as if I had read the story before. Part of the plot was similar to a book, A Melungeon Winter
by Patrick Bone, which dealt with the affects of prejudice on a teenage white boy growing up in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1960’s. Another part of the story was similar to a book, Sign of the Book by John Dunning, which dealt with the jailing of a mother for the shooting of her husband. This being the case, I was able to guess who killed Charlie’s father, which unfortunately made the book predicable. Angel’s Rest is author Charles Davis’ first novel. Davis, a former federal law enforcement officer and US Army soldier, grew up in southwest Virginia, lived in Maine and North Carolina, and now resides in New Hampshire. His second book, Drifting South, is now on sale.