Book Review

Basic Details:

Book Title: Why A Complicated Love

Subtitle:

Author: Daniel Kemp

Genre: Love and adversity

Part of a series? No

Order in series: N/A

Best read after earlier books in series? N/A

Available: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38357948-why-a-complicated-love

Overall score:

I scored this book 4/5

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Short Summary of the book:

This book tells the story of four people, Terry, a nineteen-year-old boy who believes it’s his lucky day when beautiful Sammy takes him home. Francis, the disillusioned and evil husband of Sammy who was attacked and rendered impotent in his younger years. Sammy, who takes men to her bed, filmed by Francis in order to blackmail the men to do his bidding. And, Laura, their beautiful daughter who falls in love with Terry. A love between them which flourished but was never to be. The ending is surprising and worrying.

What I liked about the book:

I liked the suspense in the book.

What I didn’t like about the book:

The book was a little depressing in places.

My favourite bits in the book:

When it looks like Laura and Terry may have a chance at love after all.

My least favourite bits in the book:

Where the extent of Laura’s feelings toward her dad become clear and the extent she goes to.

Any further books in the series? Any more planned by this author?

This author has written other books, none in the same series.

What books could this be compared to and why?

It is difficult to find a book this can fully be compared to. It was depressing and unique in places.

Recommendation:

Children No

Young Adult Possibly

Adult Yes

If you like Intrique and romance this book may be the book for you.

I look forward to reading more books by this author.

Book Description by Author:

Why? Is a story set in a web of despair, sex, unreachable emotion and love.

One man's crippling injuries, caused by an unprovoked, vicious attack, ruins the lives of everyone around him. This includes Terry Meadows, a nineteen-year-old boy who falls in love with the main character's daughter Laura, twenty-seven years before the opening of the story.

The twisted, interconnecting matrix in which Francis, Laura's father, lives, destroys and distorts his daughter's image of life beyond repair. It is a sad tragedy with an unexpected ending.

About the Author:

Daniel Kemp’s introduction to the world of espionage and mystery happened at an early age when his father was employed by the War Office in Whitehall, London, at the end of WWII. However, it wasn’t until after his father died that he showed any interest in anything other than himself!

On leaving academia he took on many roles in his working life: a London police officer, mini-cab business owner, pub tenant and licensed London taxi driver, but never did he plan to become a writer. Nevertheless, after a road traffic accident left him suffering from PTSD and effectively—out of paid work for four years, he wrote and self-published his first novel —The Desolate Garden. Within three months of publication, that book was under a paid option to become a $30 million film. The option lasted for five years until distribution became an insurmountable problem for the production company.

All seven of his novels are now published by Creativia with the seventh—The Widow’s Son, completing a three book series alongside: What Happened In Vienna, Jack? and Once I Was A Soldier. Under the Creativia publishing banner, The Desolate Garden went on to become a bestselling novel in World and Russian Literature in 2017. The following year, in May 2018, his book What Happened In Vienna, Jack? was a number one bestseller on four separate Amazon sites: America, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Although it's true to say that he mainly concentrates on what he knows most about; murders laced by the mystery involving spies, his diverse experience of life shows in the short stories he writes, namely: Why? A Complicated Love, and the intriguing story titled The Story That Had No Beginning.

He is the recipient of rave reviews from a prestigious Manhattan publication and described as—the new Graham Green—by a highly placed employee of Waterstones Books, for whom he did a countrywide tour of book signing events. He has also appeared on 'live' television in the UK publicising that first novel of his.

He continues to write novels, poetry and the occasional quote; this one is taken from the beginning of Once I Was A Soldier

There is no morality to be found in evil. But to recognise that which is truly evil one must forget the rules of morality.

Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Kemp/...