Review: A Fractured Childhood Turns Into Incredible Storytelling
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2014
I know, there’s a lot of cliché’s that can be drawn from this book, but the truth of the matter is that they work best here. The themes here are not new, but they are painted very well by Aiden Riley. Riley has connected the dots of a narrative that floored me, as a writer myself. I’m still trying to get a grip with my own childhood, and the story of Ray Ryan really impacts me to the core.It’s a fascinating world that Riley has crafted here, and the young boy in England that wants to be a writer goes through tragic occurrences, that are the makeup of creating narrative for the future. If you haven’t lived, you can’t write, or so they say, which is why the obstacles through at Ryan move the story to a sincere closure towards the end.This is a book that is easy to read, classic in scope, and wonderful to consider. It’s most definitely a coming of age story, but one that is wrapped into a whole new framework, one that is by far one of the few that I’ve read in a while that has been done so well. From boyhood to adulthood and the transitions of a violent world, Riley crafts a great tale, and I recommend it.