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

Randy Love comes from a family of comedians. I do give full credit to the author for a humorous start. His older siblings are achievers, but his parents, especially his father (John Love), is a real hoot. They don’t expect much from Randy and he doesn’t let them down. He is shown to be intelligent but lazy for academics. He is very much interested in the banking sector and earning money from interest collected behind tellers. He does a couple of odd jobs, which pleases his father (who is slightly worried after all the other kids have left home and his wife, Margaret, passed away). Randy eventually convinces the person helping him in the employment agency to get him a full time job in a bank.

Thus begins the journey of Randy Love, desperate for money and hence, stability, while at the same time, trying to woo girls. He never found the latter difficult because of his handsome looks and charming charisma, but he is unable to be steady with a single girl. With help from his friends, he moves to London, but then major problems start.

Randy finds solace in one girl, Nicky, who works in his elder brother, James’, firm. He finds her structured way of living unbearable but has no choice. Randy’s problem is that he thinks too lowly of other people. He runs forcefully along his path, believing that he’ll tread heavily on other people because of his wit. The reader finds out that he rather has a swollen head and thinks that he can get away with anything because of his (apparently wrong) belief that he is the smartest of all. Randy forgets that “he, who knows he knows not, knows it all”. He gets hurt and hurts a few in the process. How will he survive in London?

I didn’t entirely enjoy the book. The beginning was great with a very comical family. His sister, Heather, is very concerned about Randy and James helps as best as he can. John is a wonderful father in providing jokes for the reader. After that, there is a lot of adult content which I, as usual, don’t like. On a positive note, I found only two editing mistakes. I congratulate on the editor for that. Also, a lot of my questions remained unanswered at the end. Randy sits confidently for a prestigious exam, consisting of multiple choice questions, but there is no mention of it later in the story. Did he pass? Did he miserably fail? I’ll never know. Randy’s tricks are humorous but one wonders why he does such blunders when one realizes that he’ll get caught. His friends, Nadir, Michael, Toby, Ian, Matty, Mickey, Pete and many more are great pals. They help him party, pick up girls and help him move as well. But I felt really bad for the girl characters he threw away so easily without caring for the feelings. Randy Love sure does break a lot of hearts.

I rate Randy Love…at your service by Shay Carter 2 out of 4 stars. I regret that I found no moral except that one should not try to trick people by assuming that they are really dumb. I found a lot of foul language as well. I just hope that readers enjoy the first part with the humorous bit about Randy’s family. Please don’t cheat anyone!

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Randy Love...at your service
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I have just now downloaded this book. But reading your review i have started disliking randy already.

The Researcher wrote:I have just now downloaded this book. But reading your review i have started disliking randy already.

A book is still a story by its own right. You may still want to try it out. Please don't suppress your reading instinct by my review. There is definitely a lot of room for improvement, of course.

Great review. I also read and reviewed this a while back and I totally agree with you on every aspect.

Jaime Lync wrote:Great review. I also read and reviewed this a while back and I totally agree with you on every aspect.

Thank you! I think the storyline could gave been much better.