Review of Duplicity
Posted: 01 Aug 2021, 05:43
[Following is a volunteer review of "Duplicity" by Fin C Gray.]
Tom and Alison McIntyre's simple loving family has a kind-hearted daughter Jenny and a loving son Daniel, whose traumatic experience, no one knew about - crumbles into pieces after Alison's death. Set in England, Duplicity by Fin C Gray orates terrorism, drug abuse, grief, childhood trauma, lost innocence, homosexuality, animal cruelty, and most dominant of all love and hatred.
The story though started and revolved around terrorism but in my perspective, it was a way through which the author portrayed the extremities and the dark turns that life can take. What one may do in order to be with someone they love, What a person becomes due to unresolved fights and pain- pain that neither healed nor diminished.
This book for me was a tale of a father and a son - connected and separated by anguish. Tom, A heartbroken husband who tried to hold the last strand of joy but tragedy cursed him, and Daniel, a once loving son who lost hope of finding comfort after his mother's death and got exploited in ways he couldn't fathom. Both shattered souls tried to find solace in alcohol and solitude but not in communication, neither of them knew how to let it go. What happened? Did the whole family turn into a wreck? What about Jenny? Did the situation ever change? Well, you'll have to dive into the pages for that.
The writing makes us feel sympathy for most of the characters and leaves you questioning your behavior. I admired the convincing writing style where we are continuously seeing a similarity between the father and the son but yet they choose to ignore to address their mistakes. Mystifying, how the pain of the absence of a loved one can make us obtuse towards everyone else present.
Loving someone is not enough, making their issues your own, understanding their demons, not keeping any secrets from each other is what keeps a family together and is what I assimilated. I was left horrified, heartbroken, traumatized, and sorrowful while reading this book.
Sincerely, apart from a few errors, I don't possess anything negative to say about this book.
I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. It contains profanity and a few sexual instances so I wouldn't recommend this book to young readers or anyone who could be triggered due to animal cruelty or painful descriptions- it surely isn't for the tender heart. Apart from that, readers who interest themselves in crime, family drama, psychologically rich plots, heartbreak, should flip through the pages right now.
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Duplicity
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Tom and Alison McIntyre's simple loving family has a kind-hearted daughter Jenny and a loving son Daniel, whose traumatic experience, no one knew about - crumbles into pieces after Alison's death. Set in England, Duplicity by Fin C Gray orates terrorism, drug abuse, grief, childhood trauma, lost innocence, homosexuality, animal cruelty, and most dominant of all love and hatred.
The story though started and revolved around terrorism but in my perspective, it was a way through which the author portrayed the extremities and the dark turns that life can take. What one may do in order to be with someone they love, What a person becomes due to unresolved fights and pain- pain that neither healed nor diminished.
This book for me was a tale of a father and a son - connected and separated by anguish. Tom, A heartbroken husband who tried to hold the last strand of joy but tragedy cursed him, and Daniel, a once loving son who lost hope of finding comfort after his mother's death and got exploited in ways he couldn't fathom. Both shattered souls tried to find solace in alcohol and solitude but not in communication, neither of them knew how to let it go. What happened? Did the whole family turn into a wreck? What about Jenny? Did the situation ever change? Well, you'll have to dive into the pages for that.
The writing makes us feel sympathy for most of the characters and leaves you questioning your behavior. I admired the convincing writing style where we are continuously seeing a similarity between the father and the son but yet they choose to ignore to address their mistakes. Mystifying, how the pain of the absence of a loved one can make us obtuse towards everyone else present.
Loving someone is not enough, making their issues your own, understanding their demons, not keeping any secrets from each other is what keeps a family together and is what I assimilated. I was left horrified, heartbroken, traumatized, and sorrowful while reading this book.
Sincerely, apart from a few errors, I don't possess anything negative to say about this book.
I rate this book 4 out of 4 stars. It contains profanity and a few sexual instances so I wouldn't recommend this book to young readers or anyone who could be triggered due to animal cruelty or painful descriptions- it surely isn't for the tender heart. Apart from that, readers who interest themselves in crime, family drama, psychologically rich plots, heartbreak, should flip through the pages right now.
******
Duplicity
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon