Review of The Most Unlikely Champion
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Review of The Most Unlikely Champion
[Following is a volunteer review of "The Most Unlikely Champion" by Vera Koo.]
Vera begins her story by telling of her accident when she tripped and broke her leg while she was alone practicing on the shooting range. She tells how difficult it was to drag herself to her car where her phone was so that she could call for help
Then she goes back to her early married life with Carlos her husband, her first introduction to guns and how afraid she was of them. One of their friends had bought a gun and invited them to go hunting with him. As Vera picked the gun up it fired, fortunately pointing away from everyone, but it gave her a big shock and she realised it was dangerous not to know how to shoot when around guns. She joined a class to learn about guns and how to shoot and set a goal to become the best shooter in the class. This book is mainly about her shooting and how she reached each goal she set for herself, how she worked and pushed herself to attain the goals she set and win the various competitions. She inserts aspects of her life where pertinent and in this way the reader gets to know her and the way her experiences have moulded her. She tells of her childhood home and how she was treated and how this made her strive to be the best at everything she did. She had a strict traditional Chinese upbringing, having been taught that men were always to be put first and it was the women's work to serve them and their families. She tells of her husband and children and how dealing with the loss of their first son helped her to be strong enough to cope with life and other challenges as they happened.
The Most Unlikely Champion by Vera Koo is a story of perseverance and pluck. This book is not written in chronological order. At any stage while writing about her shooting and competitions, she veers off to tell us a little more about her childhood, her mother and father, her husband and family or something else she had experienced in her life. The faith she developed in God comes through very strongly. Vera had a very traditional Chinese upbringing and the way she managed to cope with the values she was taught as a child and mesh them into the adult life she led, shows what a strong woman she actually was.
She enters so many shooting competitions that it is difficult to remember them all and the list of all her achievments at the back of the book is very interesting and helpful. She writes well and the story grips the reader. Although she has been through so much, she still has a positive outlook on life.
I found that I sometimes lost the thread because of the way she kept on going back to something in her earlier life, but I soon picked it up again as I read on and got to understand her and how she coped with the pressures in her life.
I would rate this book 4 out of 4 stars as I found no grammatical, punctuation or spelling errors. It as extremely well edited. This is an interesting book to read and very uplifting to see how a timid girl with the traditional Chinese upbringinh she had, can achieve so much through determination and faith. I would recommend this book to those who need a bit of motivation and those who admire people who refuse to give up.
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The Most Unlikely Champion
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Vera begins her story by telling of her accident when she tripped and broke her leg while she was alone practicing on the shooting range. She tells how difficult it was to drag herself to her car where her phone was so that she could call for help
Then she goes back to her early married life with Carlos her husband, her first introduction to guns and how afraid she was of them. One of their friends had bought a gun and invited them to go hunting with him. As Vera picked the gun up it fired, fortunately pointing away from everyone, but it gave her a big shock and she realised it was dangerous not to know how to shoot when around guns. She joined a class to learn about guns and how to shoot and set a goal to become the best shooter in the class. This book is mainly about her shooting and how she reached each goal she set for herself, how she worked and pushed herself to attain the goals she set and win the various competitions. She inserts aspects of her life where pertinent and in this way the reader gets to know her and the way her experiences have moulded her. She tells of her childhood home and how she was treated and how this made her strive to be the best at everything she did. She had a strict traditional Chinese upbringing, having been taught that men were always to be put first and it was the women's work to serve them and their families. She tells of her husband and children and how dealing with the loss of their first son helped her to be strong enough to cope with life and other challenges as they happened.
The Most Unlikely Champion by Vera Koo is a story of perseverance and pluck. This book is not written in chronological order. At any stage while writing about her shooting and competitions, she veers off to tell us a little more about her childhood, her mother and father, her husband and family or something else she had experienced in her life. The faith she developed in God comes through very strongly. Vera had a very traditional Chinese upbringing and the way she managed to cope with the values she was taught as a child and mesh them into the adult life she led, shows what a strong woman she actually was.
She enters so many shooting competitions that it is difficult to remember them all and the list of all her achievments at the back of the book is very interesting and helpful. She writes well and the story grips the reader. Although she has been through so much, she still has a positive outlook on life.
I found that I sometimes lost the thread because of the way she kept on going back to something in her earlier life, but I soon picked it up again as I read on and got to understand her and how she coped with the pressures in her life.
I would rate this book 4 out of 4 stars as I found no grammatical, punctuation or spelling errors. It as extremely well edited. This is an interesting book to read and very uplifting to see how a timid girl with the traditional Chinese upbringinh she had, can achieve so much through determination and faith. I would recommend this book to those who need a bit of motivation and those who admire people who refuse to give up.
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The Most Unlikely Champion
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