Review: Wendy Laharanar Makes You Thank God For Today and Pray For Tomorrow
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2012
Happiness Guaranteed chills you to the very bone while at the same time making you grateful for the erratic world we live in today. Yes, we are a chaotic people with emotions that are not always easy to understand, but the alterative, a world of constant serenity, where we've been genetically created to never know the discomfort of emotions, nor the joy of it, is no panacea.This is the world Wendy Laharnar brings us with the introduction into the life of Bianca...but like all alleged absolutes, there are always exceptions, and Bianca is one.She lives in a time where having "feelings" can lead to your untimely extermination. As you read about her battle with the emotions she's not supposed to have, you're on the edge of your seat. Will the law of the time and land catch up with her...and if they do what will her ultimate sentence be?I read the story...so I know...but I walked away from this short, powerful story, haunted and very glad I live in a time when we are not eradicated for knowing the complexities of love, anger, frustration, disappointment. As uncomfortable as "feeling" is, the alternative...a sea of tranquil somnambulance is not my idea of living.