American Sniper

 American Sniper

Review by Drew P

American Sniper is the memoir written by Navy SEAL Chris Kyle about his life during his career as a sniper in the Navy. Chris Kyle describes how his life was affected during his four tours in Iraq. The book starts with Chris as a boy and how he grew up as a farm boy in Texas. It then goes onto describe how he joined the Navy and the different steps that went into becoming a SEAL. The training gave me an entire new perspective on how difficult it is to become a Navy soldier. After he goes through training he meets his wife Taya and leaves shortly after to go on his first tour. Chris goes into very great detail about how he became the sniper with the most kills in US military history. I thought that the memoir was a very interesting book because I didn’t know how much pain, sweat and agony goes into becoming a SEAL. His memoir really puts into perspective how much being in the military and how much these men and women do for our country. I found this book to be an easier read that had a very good storyline, and was easy to follow along throughout.

I would recommend this book to anyone ages eleven to one-hundred, boy or girl because Chris wrote this book in a way that is . This book is for more mature readers because there are some very gruesome details that might make younger readers close the book. I would also recommend this book to anyone who enjoys an action book that is very well written with some mild language. Throughout this book I was thoroughly entertained and wanted to keep reading. Although I thought that this book was very good I would’ve really liked to read more about what went through his mind when he was making these kills. It was probably very hard for him to do this but I would’ve really enjoyed reading what his mental state was during his four tours in Iraq. Through the book Chris makes has very great humor that helped pick up the book when it would be at a drag in the book when it rarely happened. After reading this book I highly recommend it to any reader that doesn’t mind a little bit of obscene language and gore because once you get past that it is a very great read.