"If your reading this" Summary/Reflection

I am about a little bit less of half of the book and so far everything seems pretty calm and chill. This book started off with Mike (main character/narrator) talking about his father and how he died in action somewhere in Afghanistan. Mike Is 16 and a Sophomore in High School. Mike is being encouraged by his coach Carter to join the Football team but Mike is having some internal problems with himself, and is sure wether to join or not. Mikes friend Ethan is also encouraging Mike to do something more with himself such as joining football or taking someone to Homecoming. Mike at this point isn't sure about anything. Mike ends up wanting to join but his mother is now telling him that she isn't sure that is the best thing for him at the time. Only a few days were able to pass until Mike got the devastating letters from his father's death that barely came to him now. The letters explained how sorry Mike's father was for everything and explaining how if he saw the letter then he had already died. Mike was extremely confused as his mother. A stack of unread letter came flowing to Mike and his mother. As Mike read and read these letters as they came in, Mike started to rethink a few of his doubts and choices.

I believe this is a realistic fiction novel. I really prefer this type of genre over other because reading a realistic fiction novel really has conflict and plot to it, but has a realistic setting and overall problem. In my book the realistic part of my book is that Mike's father was a soldier in Afghanistan but I'm not sure if the whole inner conflict happened with Mike. I have read several novels like this like "The story of Scott Pendleton Collins". Which was about a young man that was drafted into World war II along with his brother and a few friends of his. This novel had a realistic setting, but a fake storyline and fake inner conflicts. I would read realistic fiction novels again because I like reading book with interesting history facts, but without the boring documentary books. These books have historical information that doesn't bore you because at the same time it has an interesting conflict with the characters' inside the story.