"Strap on your goggles and your camelback water bag! It's time for a breathtaking glimpse inside the adrenaline -fueled world of off-road racing amid the dusty mesquite- and pecan-dotted pastures around Central Texas.
This slim but absorbing journal chronicles each adventure-filled race in the 2019 Texas Off Road Championship season straight from the uber-detailed journal of standout writer and author Mike Kowis -- accompanied on many of the races by his teenaged son, Cash.
We'll give you a few very good reasons as to why you should put this book on your own summer reading list --
1. It's a virtual "how to" on the strategies and tactics needed to win one of these unique events. If you are already way into this sport as a spectator, this book will give you two legs up on your competition.
2. It's cinematic in delivery and description, making you choke on every dust cloud raised by the racer just in front of you. In our opinion it would make a great movie.
3. It's heart-warming in the extreme, as Kowis describes the special bond that develops between father and son during the 2019 racing season.
We award Texas Off Road Racing: A Father-Son Journey to a Side-by-Side Championship a full five stars for its colorful descriptive abilities as well as its ability to deliver a riveting read, worthy of any Top Ten event-based memoir we've ever reviewed."
"Brimming with passion and amusing anecdotes, Texas Off-Road Racing by Mike Kowis, Esq. is an entertaining journey through the sport of UTV off-road racing, as well as a touching family story. While doubtlessly, Kowis' book will be most appealing to those who are familiar with the sport, he provides enough information that the layman can understand what it takes to compete, with the author's love of racing taking the front seat, which is infectious. The play-by-play of one race goes a long way to filling in the details, so there is some repetition, but the strong use of visuals throughout give the narrative a sense of happening in real time, and the father-son dynamic tells a far greater story than one about off-road racing."
