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Title: Hometown Legend

Author: Jerry B. Jenkins

Narrator: Tom Stechschulte

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-12-14

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The number-one New York Times best-selling author of the Left Behind series, Jerry B. Jenkins returns with this heartwarming tale. In Athens City, Alabama, hard times have driven the town to desperation. But with the return of an old friend, the town's football team might be able to bring back the glory.

Members Reviews:

Great Book - Wonderful Story

I liked this book so much that I bought one for my son and one for each of my grandchildren. I like hero books and this one is not your typical hero book, but is so very inspiring. Don't miss it - you may miss the "read" you wish you had purchased.

Incredible

A very beautiful story I hope other people will read this book and enjoy it as much as I have

Five Stars

Would Buy From Again

Hometown Legend

ISBN 0446529028 - My review is based on my reading of an ARC I picked up at a thrift store, so if I comment on things that didn't show up in your book, don't worry about it. First, I'd like to point out something on my book that isn't on yours: the publication date on it is September 10, 2001. Jenkins is the sort of author whose books normally catch attention, even mine, upon release, and I have to think the timing - if it was published then - on this one buried it. It's time for you to go back and pick it up.

Athens City is a small town in Alabama, where football is more than a sport, it's the lifeblood of the town - and the town is dying. The high school football coach left town following a tragedy in 1988 and for the last 12 years things have gone from bad to worse. American Leather, the town's main employer, is failing; jobless people have to leave town to be able to survive; the high school is facing its last year and can't even find a coach to take them through it. Until, that is, circumstances bring Coach Schuler home. With little more than hope on their side, can the team, the school, the company or the town get through alive?

I'm not a fan of Christian writing, but found that religion in the first half of the book slipped naturally and easily into the story. Near the end it began to feel as if Jenkins thought you might not get the message he was sending and the religious references began to feel forced and a bit heavy-handed. The hillbilly-esque writing, including a million uses of "a course" instead of "of course" or even "o' course", didn't read as naturally as the author seems to think it does. Still, with or without a faith in god, Hometown Hero is an easy read with an inspirational storyline and a really touching secondary story in Athens City's star player. Go, read!

- AnnaLovesBooks

An Engaging Story

Cal Sawyer is a widower and the top business employer of Athens City. He struggles with his feelings about Bev, one of his long time employees and to keep his American Leather Football Company--a small town factory--afloat. But if his company unravels, so does the city of Athens, once renowned for having a champion football team under coach Buster Schuler. If Cal's company crumbles, the high school his daughter Rachel attends will close its doors along with the town itself.

But when Buster Schuler returns to coach the Crusaders after resigning twelve years earlier following a tragedy, a candle of hope ignites in the city. The painful memory accompanies Schuler, but doesn't shake his dream to be back on top one more time.