Review: A definite must-read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 7, 2014
For some reason, Aiden Riley’s book, ‘Ray Ryan’ reminds me of that 2002 award-winning Brazilian film, ‘City of God’, primarily because of the main character’s fairly innocuous dream of becoming a writer getting derailed because of the “bad” company he happened to keep.‘Ray Ryan’ is about the titular character Ray, whose supposedly uneventful life focused on reading books and hopefully writing them someday is suddenly thrown into chaos, thanks to questionable choices made by his best friend. With his friend getting involved in drugs and rubbing elbows with dangerous folks, Ray finds himself torn apart between fight and flight, between standing by his friend or abandoning him. In the end, his choices make him into a person he has always wanted to be, and more. Indeed, ‘Ray Ryan’ is a story everyone can deeply relate with—author Aiden Riley has an uncanny knack for vividly capturing an ordinary teen’s life, all with its romantic undertones.Overall, ‘Ray Ryan’ is a deeply engaging coming-of-age, against-all-odds tale that bears striking genetic strands of early David Mitchell (particularly his ‘Black Swan Green’ era)—but of course, author Aiden Riley stands on his own as an up-and-coming literary force—if his next book comes out, I’ll buy it in a heartbeat. Get a copy of this book today—enjoyment guaranteed.