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Title: Finding Roland McCray

Subtitle: The Adventures of Roland McCray, Book 3

Author: Blaine Coleman

Narrator: Dickie Thomas

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-25-14

Publisher: Blaine Coleman

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

This saga of Roland McCray's adventures begins in the 1960s and recalls a simpler time to be a kid, when children played outdoors for hours instead of spending hours on their smart phones, tablets, and video games, and follows Roland through those angst-ridden teenage years.

No longer a child but not yet an adult, Roland learns the pain of loss and the indescribable joy of first love. He begins to understand the need of forgiveness and acceptance in the face of an often confusing world. Enticed by more temptations than ever, Roland still seeks that quiet morality of his grandfather's belief that faith that isn't a thing to be displayed to the world, but is a quiet and unwavering belief that all things work for the good of those who seek good.

Each chapter is a complete story, but taken together, his experiences form a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. This audiobook will quickly pull you into Roland's world and the struggles we all face growing up, but it is ultimately a satisfying and truly inspiring story that will leave you with a new view of the beauty that is life! Roland McCray's story is, in some small way, everyone's story.

Members Reviews:

Worth reading on a lazy summer weekend

My first review was for the kindle edition of "Butterflies" (The Adventures of Roland McCray). I still stand by that review where I stated "Butterflies" would be a great book for teachers to read to their elementary students. This edition, Finding Roland McCray (Adventures) needs to have a disclaimer, that at a certain point in the book, subjects that will cause controversy in public and private schools are narrated, sometimes in great detail: sex, drugs and religion. These are topics better suited to mature readers enjoying Blaine Coleman's book on their own. The last few chapters are more of a "coming-of-age-in-a-small-town" story. Personally, I enjoyed reading more about Roland's teen years. I learned what intimacy means, from an average young man's perspective. I never saw sex from that viewpoint before. Overall, this edition is worth reading on a lazy summer weekend.

Highly recommended!!!

I just love following The tales of Roland McCray. When I heard the author added on to his stories from the original, Tunnels in the Briar Patch, I knew I had to buy it to see what adventures Roland would go on to. Blaine Coleman's collection of short stories as seen through the eyes of eight year old Roland McCray is so detailed and heartwarming. Roland is growing up in the south in a time before children were constantly playing video games and watching television. Roland instead plays outdoors, rides his bicycle, goes fishing and many other outdoor activities. The innocence of the child comes through brilliantly throughout the stories.

Roland has some adventures along the way, playing in a cemetery and finding relics on a Civil War battlefield but he must also deal with some dilemmas of his own; very real dilemmas for an eight year old boy. The story itself was very well written.