MentEveryWord

I have heard tales of Action Park from many older relatives for many years and was very excited to dive into this one. The first chunk of the book is quite interesting. I even enjoyed Andy’s attitude towards the idea of risk and personal responsibility with the danger at the beginning.

However, as the book went on, Andy grows up and the teenage attitude of invisibility stops feeling as great and instead begins to feel stupid. Not to mention, as the book progresses, more of the decisions shared come across as just stupid because they wanted to do it cheap or atheistically pleasing or whatever excuse was given. No hand railings and using slick building materials on stairs that are going in a water attraction. That is just stupid for the sake of being stupid and really detracts from the idea what people want to choose their own risk and live life on the edge.

Overall, this still gets 3.5 ⭐s from me. The last 50-75 pages really dragged for me but the rest was enjoyable.