Book Review: An Uneasy Alliance by Kyra Radcliff
I literally devoured the pages of An Uneasy Alliance by Kyra Radcliff. In this book nothing is as it seems, and as a reader you will begin to speculate on who is telling the truth and above all what is the ultimate goal of every action or word of all the characters, none excluded. Get to know the determined Katherine James and the insane Tate Reilly!
Irony, madness and overwhelming attraction frame the story of Katherine and Tate, two magnets who should not be attracted to each other but will they be able to resist? Let's find out together. Happy Reading!
The protagonist is Katherine who, has to do whatever it takes to get her brother out of bars, decides to accept the invitation of her enemy, Tate to his villa as his live-in social secretary for one month. Katherine will become part of this microcosm so well designed in a completely natural way and a few days will be enough to be emotionally involved with Tate.
But in all this, believe me, it won't be Tate, who will upset you, but all the "script" that the inhabitants of his mansion and its surroundings seem to have put in place. Katherine feels that something unspoken lingers in the air and will investigate a lot to shed light on these doubts but what will she discover? Read it, read it, read it!
It is an erotic novel finally, where eroticism permeates the pages without being the centerpiece. The first and third-person narrative makes this a choral novel without ever losing sight of the importance of the protagonists who always remain on the front line.
A story with decidedly noir traits, which fascinates and intrigues the reader psychologically causing them to involuntarily enter the mind of Katherine while not accepting the rules. Several times, in fact, situations have found my dissent but nothing has managed to make me stop for a moment.
Once you know Katherine and Tate you inevitably want to find out what they are hiding, not to mention of course that one is bewitched by the refinement of one and the passion of the other, just as it happens to any human being.
And amid eroticism, secrets, ambiguity and everyone's desire to do the right thing, I can tell you that I lost my mind for Keith and Sam the younger siblings of Katherine and Tate but above all for the pungent, frank, dragging style of our compatriot who gave us an erotic novel definitely not to be missed.
The story unfolds in an interesting manner among the vicissitudes of the brother and sister and the ending leaves a glimpse open to new adventures. A fluent reading of growing interest that, without ever being boring, addresses with great concreteness the anxieties, frustrations, the evolution (and the inversion) of human relationships.
I found all the four characters were well built and outlined, on the one hand insecure and fragile and on the other strong and determined, able to complement each other, but above all capable of becoming aware of what they really want and what is really important for their respective lives.
The deep bonds that unite characters end up prevailing on cynicism and disenchantment. In the construction of the figures that animate the story, I appreciated the fact that none can be defined as totally positive, but each one has fragility and shaded areas that make it more authentic.
The narration flows smoothly going straight to the point, and at the heart of the matter without getting lost in unnecessary turns, immediately capturing the attention and keeping it alive until the end of the reading. The book is well written, it takes you and makes you go through the 178 pages with almost one breath. In many passages I got excited, it made me think.
The plot had made me anticipate that I would read something that was in my strings and above all that it would not have been the usual erotic escapade, all acrobatics and nothing else. How nice to find out that my intuition has not failed. Who decides to read this book will be faced with a story full of mystery, intrigue and markedly erotic traits.
Sweet-bitter, funny, edgy, cynical, touching, the title is entirely pertinent, because the story is broad and I would say that it concerns life in its entirety, with its limits, the wrong choices, the circumstances that guide everyone's actions, for better or for worse.
The author knows how to write very well, with a simple language but enriched with words and expressions worthy of a high literature. The story is exciting and I recognized myself in several moments in the life of the characters.
It is an unforgettable reading because the ending comforts you. Some choices of life, wrong or right they are, are part of the human being and very often, apparently negative, have positive implications precisely because it is not possible to go against nature. Between a laugh, a smile, a curse, a moment of tenderness and one of pure passion, the author has really conquered me, therefore I cannot help but advise you also to read this novel.
Irony, madness and overwhelming attraction frame the story of Katherine and Tate, two magnets who should not be attracted to each other but will they be able to resist? Let's find out together. Happy Reading!
The protagonist is Katherine who, has to do whatever it takes to get her brother out of bars, decides to accept the invitation of her enemy, Tate to his villa as his live-in social secretary for one month. Katherine will become part of this microcosm so well designed in a completely natural way and a few days will be enough to be emotionally involved with Tate.
But in all this, believe me, it won't be Tate, who will upset you, but all the "script" that the inhabitants of his mansion and its surroundings seem to have put in place. Katherine feels that something unspoken lingers in the air and will investigate a lot to shed light on these doubts but what will she discover? Read it, read it, read it!
It is an erotic novel finally, where eroticism permeates the pages without being the centerpiece. The first and third-person narrative makes this a choral novel without ever losing sight of the importance of the protagonists who always remain on the front line.
A story with decidedly noir traits, which fascinates and intrigues the reader psychologically causing them to involuntarily enter the mind of Katherine while not accepting the rules. Several times, in fact, situations have found my dissent but nothing has managed to make me stop for a moment.
Once you know Katherine and Tate you inevitably want to find out what they are hiding, not to mention of course that one is bewitched by the refinement of one and the passion of the other, just as it happens to any human being.
And amid eroticism, secrets, ambiguity and everyone's desire to do the right thing, I can tell you that I lost my mind for Keith and Sam the younger siblings of Katherine and Tate but above all for the pungent, frank, dragging style of our compatriot who gave us an erotic novel definitely not to be missed.
The story unfolds in an interesting manner among the vicissitudes of the brother and sister and the ending leaves a glimpse open to new adventures. A fluent reading of growing interest that, without ever being boring, addresses with great concreteness the anxieties, frustrations, the evolution (and the inversion) of human relationships.
I found all the four characters were well built and outlined, on the one hand insecure and fragile and on the other strong and determined, able to complement each other, but above all capable of becoming aware of what they really want and what is really important for their respective lives.
The deep bonds that unite characters end up prevailing on cynicism and disenchantment. In the construction of the figures that animate the story, I appreciated the fact that none can be defined as totally positive, but each one has fragility and shaded areas that make it more authentic.
The narration flows smoothly going straight to the point, and at the heart of the matter without getting lost in unnecessary turns, immediately capturing the attention and keeping it alive until the end of the reading. The book is well written, it takes you and makes you go through the 178 pages with almost one breath. In many passages I got excited, it made me think.
The plot had made me anticipate that I would read something that was in my strings and above all that it would not have been the usual erotic escapade, all acrobatics and nothing else. How nice to find out that my intuition has not failed. Who decides to read this book will be faced with a story full of mystery, intrigue and markedly erotic traits.
The author knows how to write very well, with a simple language but enriched with words and expressions worthy of a high literature. The story is exciting and I recognized myself in several moments in the life of the characters.
It is an unforgettable reading because the ending comforts you. Some choices of life, wrong or right they are, are part of the human being and very often, apparently negative, have positive implications precisely because it is not possible to go against nature. Between a laugh, a smile, a curse, a moment of tenderness and one of pure passion, the author has really conquered me, therefore I cannot help but advise you also to read this novel.
