Review: Review of Delicate Rain
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2014
Readers are taken into the world of drug manufacture , drug trafficking and violence. The protagonist, a young runaway girl, is used as a pawn to test and promote a new drug, she by association named Delicate Rain, her name.Rain sought freedom from convention and authority and landed operating in a gang of criminals that spent life in secret illegal dealings by using the force of the underworld and even murder, to make money and protect their individual causes.  Rain's innocence and wish for adventure made her a target for manipulation by the gang for their own ends.Readers experience the classy life of the druglord, violent killings, fearful situations, secrecy, euphoria, illuminating  colour, mesmerizing trances that the drug induces. But the readers are also taken into the aftermath of drug wars, and drug use, crumbling lives, guilt, dark zone of chaotic thoughts, feelings, fatigue and numbness.The author successfully keeps the reader's interest with a well constructed plot, and beautifully describes the magic of euphoria and physical surroundings: " all the orange from the flowers flowed just like lights, becoming a gorgeous addition to the luminescent masterpiece the infant sunrise birthed."The message the author suggests is clearly summed up in Rain's memoir which he gives to the reader in the form of letters from Rain to her parents. The memoir is carried through the story and plays an effective role.The author does slip into recycling discussions and some repetitive underworld jargon which might not interest all readers. I understand if he wanted to portray the subculture's style of speech.I hope to see this author maturing in his talent and I wish him literary work of note.Scarlett Jensen: Author of The Angel with Burnt Wings.