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Review by Molly Martin (310711) Rating (8/10) Review
by Molly Martin The narrative opens with a chance meeting, the narrator, Aaron Edgeway, is attempting, without much success, to drown some sorrows. Jason Farthing seems determined to alleviate the necessity. Living with a malicious father has left Aaron more than a little cynical, jaded, and despairing. His descent into melancholy actually began over a year ago when Aaron was living in a decrepit house with his sick father. Meeting Victor was a little respite in that bleak life. Romance quickly followed allowing a little escape from the lacklustre facets of his life. Aaron was nearly overwhelmed in his desire to maintain that escape. A clandestine past, disgrace, unwanted love, blackmail, an invitation, illicit drugs, a film star, an indulged rich kid, and tour of a mansion move the tale along. A shocking video, meeting someone to love, a father’s vindictiveness, and finally death, friendship of long standing and deceit before desire, shock of discovery, and finally impossible regret and revenge and healing of a sort.
James Bennett’s Unrequited is a fast paced work filled
with a heavy torrent of suffering, poignancy and consequence of
cruel parental bond coupled with fall out resulting from a series
of untrustworthy relationships. Bennett’s writing is crisp, well paced, characters are well fleshed, some outcomes are predictable to the reader, however, they work well because Aaron cannot see that they are. The reader is carried along on the spinning spiral as Aaron finds himself ensnared by quirk of unexpected destiny. Aaron is desperate to safeguard what he believes is a viable romance, however that romance is unreciprocated leading into Aaron’s plunge into calamity and feelings of failure. Aaron soon begins to consider the jeopardy of caring as he seeks ways to find solutions to the abuse suffered at the hands of his father and to repair himself against mistreatment of friends whose trust has proven untrustworthy. Unrequited is a touching narrative providing a passion driven admonitory allegory about heart ache driven reprisal for anyone who has suffered from a broken heart whether at the hands of a cruel parent, or a cruel supposed friend or lover.
Happy to recommend James Bennett’s Unrequited for those
who enjoy a well written, moving narrative filled with tragedy,
poignancy and more than a little sadness. |
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