About
the book
The fear and
insecurity in growing up in a small town that offers little
opportunity and few role models, exacerbated by an uncertain future
and pressure by emotions difficult to control, inspired Gerald L.
Nardella to write this novel. Life’s struggle can be lonely and
painful. Gerald grew up in a small town, experiencing firsthand the
insecurities from living in a broken home. Those insecurities still
haunt him to this day.
My
Review
The story starts
with a football game where Brian and the school seniors desperately
wanting to win the last football game of the season. But they fought
in a losing cause.
The story mostly
revolves around the two protagonist of the story Deanie and her
boyfriend Brian. Deanie gets herself in trouble when she sleeps with
her ex-boyfriend Bill and Brian is mad about the fact. The matters
get worse for Brian when he is accused of stealing and his low grades
at school makes life even more difficult for him.
Life has it's own
way of relating things and Brian is confused to a point that he has
no idea about what is happening in his life. And Deanie on the other
hand is pregnant and is confused as to who is the father of the
child.
What I didn't like
in the story is the excessive use of the word sex and the way it was
portrayed. The whorehouse, having sex every now and then was so
common in the story that I felt like the author was dragging the
story and it didn't feel original.
The story full is of
sex, sex and more of the sex which made it frustrating for me to read
at a certain stage.
And the best part of
the story was its climax. It was completed unexpected of what
happened in the end. It was mind blowing how the author made a quick
turn of fates and an unexpected turn of events, changed the
storyline completely. I loved the ending and the events that made it
even more interesting.
Overall it was a
good story with a great ending.
Playing Hurt was
“OnlineBookClub.org Book of the Day"
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book at Online Book Club.
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