3 out of 4 stars
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Randy Love at Your Service by SHAY CARTER
This is undoubtedly the best romance I have read in a while. It is a perfect synchronization of humor and romance. The author has an uncanny ability to portray serious events while infusing just the right amount of humor into them.
The author beautifully introduces the main character Randy love as a “retirement child” for his parents. He showcases his antics and how different he was to his siblings. I particularly like the illustration where Randy ran circles around his old, exhausted mother. The author manages to show the distinction between Randy and his siblings quite flawlessly. His siblings are intelligent, self-driven and have successful careers unlike Randy who is looking for reasons to ditch school.
While portraying Randy like an easygoing youth who does not have a purpose in life, the author awards him with virtues like affability, deep intellect, street smarts, no fear for hard work and a very healthy sense of humor.
The author successfully outlines several ironies that apply to Randy’s life. While on one side he is portrayed as frugal in his money spending, he also prefers to play practical jokes on his housemates and landlords which always ends with him leaving behind huge sums of money in deposits. Randy is also portrayed as a young man who has no drive owing to his reluctance to get serious with his life but then we see him opting to take a permanent job that pays poorly instead of continuing with his part-time gigs which pay quite well. He also spends a substantial amount of money in improving himself intellectually.
Another reason I loved this book so much is the conversational writing style the author employs. This kind of style effectively causes a reader to get pulled into the book more easily because it is engaging. The escapades that Randy finds himself in pull in the attention of a reader and hold it to the end. It is so easy to identify to the characters in this book.
The book also appeared to be professionally/otherwise edited. It reflected well on the author that an effort to have the book corrected was made. The language level is also standard. It is a read that anyone can read without looking for a dictionary every other page while it is still of high quality.
The troubles that Randy always manages to get himself into are laughable at best. The fact that he knows how to laugh at himself when the situation calls for it, endears him to readers as a character. I also liked how his virility is referred to as “Randy Magic”. I couldn’t stop laughing at how the older women couldn’t help themselves when Randy is around.
I would rate this book 3 out of 4 stars
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Randy Love...at your service
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