RaveValdosta Daily Times...a haunting, haunted book ... The slim volume packs a heart-breaking punch with unexpected twists ... He also writes with his eloquent power, an author who has always been good...but seems to get better with each novel. The Nickel Boys is a book that sticks with readers, a book that tears at the soul, fills a reader with righteous anger and concludes with an almost breathless shock. The feeling lingers like mourning young lives lost, like the snuffing out of potential, youth and dreams.