Review of Love All the Way
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Review of Love All the Way
[Following is a volunteer review of "Love All the Way" by Aurora Carafa.]
Imagine falling in love with someone whose love is not reciprocated romantically simply because they are not attracted to your sex or gender. This is what happens to the main character, Melanie Foster, a woman in her early twenties living in the big city of New York around the 1970s. She meets a guy named Allen Shandi, who happens to be a very good-looking clothing designer and a homosexual. This is the story of a woman who has to go through a lot of emotional ups and downs because she is incapable of not loving the love of her life.
Mel fell for Allen as quickly as she could; his beautiful appearance, humor, and intelligence would easily do the trick. He also got to love her; he gave her a job, invited her to live with him, and taught her everything he knew. They ended up building a life together, but with boundaries. He had his love life, and she just supported him and was there for him, even during his most challenging health problems days and during all the hard times that he, as a homosexual, had to go through due to social judgments.
The aspect of Love All the Way by Aurora Carafa that I liked the most was the social context of hatred that people had against homosexuals. It reminded me, as a reader, of the difficulties and injustices they had to go through once their sexual orientation became public knowledge. There were a few emotional moments where Mel intended to protect Allen from the evil that some people purposely wanted to inflict. The book was very easy to read in the sense that it did not have pretentious words, and the storyline was easy to follow. I also highlight that I found it interesting that the relationship between the protagonists began very early in the story's narration.
However, I did not like a few things about the book. One of them is that there were situations, usually about social gatherings, that were told very slowly and did not lead to anything significant in the story; even though it might have been necessary to create a connection with the characters, I found it a little bit boring. Sometimes, it was difficult to know who was saying what in the dialogues since these were embedded in the paragraphs, and sometimes the author did not clarify which character said the sentence. The most tedious thing about the story is that it was very predictable what would happen, especially toward the end. Also, I encountered a few errors throughout the book so I would suggest another round of professional editing.
Because of the reasons explained above, I give this book a rating of 3 out of 4 stars. Despite the general plot, which I found compelling, and that is why I chose this book, the story's execution could have been more exciting and intriguing because, as I said previously, the end was unsurprising and foreseeable.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a non-conventional love story or someone very passionate about gay rights and their history of social abuse.
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Love All the Way
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Imagine falling in love with someone whose love is not reciprocated romantically simply because they are not attracted to your sex or gender. This is what happens to the main character, Melanie Foster, a woman in her early twenties living in the big city of New York around the 1970s. She meets a guy named Allen Shandi, who happens to be a very good-looking clothing designer and a homosexual. This is the story of a woman who has to go through a lot of emotional ups and downs because she is incapable of not loving the love of her life.
Mel fell for Allen as quickly as she could; his beautiful appearance, humor, and intelligence would easily do the trick. He also got to love her; he gave her a job, invited her to live with him, and taught her everything he knew. They ended up building a life together, but with boundaries. He had his love life, and she just supported him and was there for him, even during his most challenging health problems days and during all the hard times that he, as a homosexual, had to go through due to social judgments.
The aspect of Love All the Way by Aurora Carafa that I liked the most was the social context of hatred that people had against homosexuals. It reminded me, as a reader, of the difficulties and injustices they had to go through once their sexual orientation became public knowledge. There were a few emotional moments where Mel intended to protect Allen from the evil that some people purposely wanted to inflict. The book was very easy to read in the sense that it did not have pretentious words, and the storyline was easy to follow. I also highlight that I found it interesting that the relationship between the protagonists began very early in the story's narration.
However, I did not like a few things about the book. One of them is that there were situations, usually about social gatherings, that were told very slowly and did not lead to anything significant in the story; even though it might have been necessary to create a connection with the characters, I found it a little bit boring. Sometimes, it was difficult to know who was saying what in the dialogues since these were embedded in the paragraphs, and sometimes the author did not clarify which character said the sentence. The most tedious thing about the story is that it was very predictable what would happen, especially toward the end. Also, I encountered a few errors throughout the book so I would suggest another round of professional editing.
Because of the reasons explained above, I give this book a rating of 3 out of 4 stars. Despite the general plot, which I found compelling, and that is why I chose this book, the story's execution could have been more exciting and intriguing because, as I said previously, the end was unsurprising and foreseeable.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a non-conventional love story or someone very passionate about gay rights and their history of social abuse.
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Love All the Way
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