Review: A well-written tale about the finding of love
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2014
This romantic coming-of-age novel is a prelude to a new series I’ve just found out. “Martine, The Beginning” is about a hardworking 19-year old that holds two jobs and is approached by a handsome young entrepreneur named Lucas. They both lost their parents too soon and had to struggle and persevere to achieve their current position. When they meet, it happens as if the universe had conspired to bind them, for they meet in a moment of time that is perfect, just like most true love histories should begin. That’ doesn’t mean its clichéd, on the contrary, because typical love histories usually don’t have their main characters past as thoroughly examined as this one. A great poet named Alexander Smith once said that “love is but the discovery of ourselves in others”, and this love history definitely reasserts Smith’s wise observation. In this sense, this love history is also about the discovery of Martine’s true self: she needs to unveil her womanhood to really know herself.Written in a subjective, third-person perspective, Edwina J White is keen on her observations, keeping the reader in close proximity to the characters intimacy. Her descriptions of Martine’s sexual findings are never vulgar, and I like the way Edwina knows how to write about how women feel, especially when they are in love for the first time. The prose is lexically rich and well-written, with a good balance between dialogues, longer descriptions and shorter paragraphs, which provides for a fast paced reading experience. I’ll definitely read the following books and I fell in love with the characters and their love history. A must read!