Review by Amagine -- Randy Love...at your service

[Amagine]

[Following is a volunteer review of "Randy Love...at your service" by Shay Carter.]

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1 out of 4 stars

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Randy Love is an average young adult. He’s young, uncommitted, and living a life one step at a time. Sure… he can’t seem to live in one place too long. He also can’t seem to commit to a job as well. As for girlfriends, who wants that kind of clingy commitment anyway? In Randy Love… at your service by Shay Carter, we follow Randy’s adventures in his young adult life as he tries to figure his life out and make many mistakes while doing it.

From the beginning of the story, I had a feeling that this was going to be a book that made a habit of jumping from one plot after another without any consistency. Unfortunately, I was right in my assumption. The beginning opened with long introductions to Randy’s family rather than the titular character himself. While, it is great to provide background information on other important characters, it was over done too early in the book. It took longer than it should have for Randy Love to become the main character in the story.

Looking past the beginning, the plot itself lacked much action, excitement and in general, interesting material. The readers are instead given a story about Randy’s commitment issues, his play boy behaviors and the fact he has a bad habit of using everyone around him. Even though, one could say that this is realistic behavior from men of his age, throughout the novel, there is no development of his character.

Randy Love is a hard character to relate to because he’s a hard character to get to know in the book. The author focused too much time in his unfiltered, uninteresting life story that the reader didn’t get much from the character himself. He comes off as shallow and dim-witted. The author doesn’t even bother trying to help the reader better understand him or give any development to his character. He’s the exact same person as he was from the very beginning.

Plot aside, there were way too many grammatical errors for me to even try to enjoy the story. I was especially put off when in the middle of the story, there was a hyperlink to a website about calendars. I admire the author for trying to cite their sources but this is not an academic paper and citations should be done at the end of the story on a separate page, not right in the middle of it.

I rate this book 1 out of 4 stars. Along with all the other things I mentioned, I was also sorely disappointed about the end of the story because… there was no true end. I finished reading the book, feeling unsatisfied and disappointed. The grammatical errors, lackluster and unstable plot and poor character development is the reason that I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone if I had a choice. If I was left with no choice, I would recommend this book to a young adult male audience who MIGHT be able to relate to Randy better than I had. Honestly, I think even they would find this an uninteresting read.

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Randy Love...at your service
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[Pilar Guerrero]

Thank you very much for your review.
I remember that this book called my attention so much that I became part of the Reviewr Team. All I wanted was this book, but then I saw other titles that called my attention more and until today I haven't read it. After this review, I think luck was on my side, time is an asset and needs to be spent wisely.
I appreciate all the reasons and details you offer in your review.

[Amagine]

Thank you so much! I've read that there are a few people who enjoyed this book. Unfortunately, I wasn't one of them because I'm big on character development. Also, there were way too many grammatical errors for me in this novel.

[va2016]

Thank you for your honest and complete review! It saves everyone's time and money
by not choosing or buying this book. Character development, story flow, and a proper
ending (happy or sad) are very important components of a novel - through which a
reader is satisfied in choosing a book. Since you have mentioned that all the three
components are missing, I agree with you that the book should be skipped. Thank you
for your review!

[Amagine]

Thank you for your honest and complete review! It saves everyone's time and money
by not choosing or buying this book. Character development, story flow, and a proper
ending (happy or sad) are very important components of a novel - through which a
reader is satisfied in choosing a book. Since you have mentioned that all the three
components are missing, I agree with you that the book should be skipped. Thank you
for your review!

Thank you for reading!

[va2016]

Thank you for your honest and complete review! It saves everyone's time and money
by not choosing or buying this book. Character development, story flow, and a proper
ending (happy or sad) are very important components of a novel - through which a
reader is satisfied in choosing a book. Since you have mentioned that all the three
components are missing, I agree with you that the book should be skipped. Thank you
for your review!

Thank you for reading!

You are very welcome!

I would appreciate your valuable comments on a few of my reviews:

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My Trip to Adele (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41610)
Wrong Turn, Right Guy (viewtopic.php?f=44&t=41406)

These are all fiction. Thank you!

[Amagine]

Thank you for your honest and complete review! It saves everyone's time and money
by not choosing or buying this book. Character development, story flow, and a proper
ending (happy or sad) are very important components of a novel - through which a
reader is satisfied in choosing a book. Since you have mentioned that all the three
components are missing, I agree with you that the book should be skipped. Thank you
for your review!

Thank you for reading!

You are very welcome!

I would appreciate your valuable comments on a few of my reviews:

Roan (viewtopic.php?f=21&t=41119)
My Trip to Adele (viewtopic.php?f=2&t=41610)
Wrong Turn, Right Guy (viewtopic.php?f=44&t=41406)

These are all fiction. Thank you!

I will definitely check out your reviews! Thanks again!

[Jaime Lync]

No true end- you said it all right there. The story started pretty well but then it went nowhere. I read and reviewed this and found just enough positives to give it 2 out of 4 stars but this story is meh. Great review.

[Amagine]

Thanks for reading! ?