Dearest,
This is much I can publish on the review for the book –
Silver Lining written by the hand of Elizabeth Uzoma Egwu, the mass
communication undergraduate student of University of Lagos who personally took
it upon herself to review the book. Please, endeavor to get a copy for
yourself, a friend, colleague, neighbor, schoolmate and … via: http://bookstore.authorhouse.com/Products/SKU-000602511/Silver-Lining.aspx
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Critical Evaluation
The novel or novella can be said to be a romance story, but
unlike others, it does not have a fairytale happy ever after ending. The story
is built with sharp narration, told from the perspective of the victim himself
thereby, making it more realistic. There is nothing new about a love story,
with make-ups and break-ups. As a matter of fact, many romance novels take up
those forms as a method of prolonging the conflict. But Godwin 3ple-i has no
time for that, although the novel is stretchy, deferring the eventual break up
to later, the author Godwin 3ple-i goes straight on to passing his message.
The novel is thought provoking and suspense thrilled. You
cannot help but put yourself in Goddy’s shoes. The whole scenario painted,
seems so natural so relatable to the readers. People of course fall in love,
the whole buying gifts, sleeping over for the weekends, going out together,
over protectiveness of fathers are all circumstances and situations people in
love find themselves in. This makes the readers sympathise with Goddy but are also faced with
the horror of the question – what happened or happens to me? Goddy’s narration
creates a sort of hunger and curiosity to find out what happens at the very
end.
He kills the readers’ predictability by going back to Tina
even when she hurts him. He creates an utmost shocker at the end of the book.
Godwin 3ple-i sends a warning to all those who are ‘madly’ in love to be
careful about how they put their whole trust on their partner. We are humans
and not spirits; we never can tell if the love felt for another is reciprocated
the same way.
The book however, has a perfect movie setting. It is those
types of books that creates the best of imagery in our minds that we can see
play out in a movie. Godwin 3ple-i leaves the readers to imagine and create
their own judgment thereby making the book much more thrilling. For example we
really don’t know what Goddy found out about Tina the first time she did
something wrong that hurt him. He only said he sent a spy and then accuses Tina
but leaves out the details of the discovery of the spy. When Goddy catches Tina
red-handed with his friend, the readers knows for a fact Tina is to the plain
guilty but cannot tell what drove her towards that.
The conflict in the book is complex in the sense that the
character Goddy is human and not perfect. His greatest fault is loving Tina so
blindly that it brings about his downfall. But, Goddy is not wholly the meek
man his character expects him to be. We see when he promises to get back at the
hoodlums who threaten him because of Tina. The readers also see his agitations
and over anxieties. He talks rudely and insults Tina’s sister – Cynthia whom he
was supposed to be friends with. Most times in a simple fiction the protagonist
is the all good person waiting for the attack of the antagonist but Silver
Lining by Godwin 3ple-i is different.
There is absolutely no doubt that if this book was written in
a female perspective, probably, Tina would be totally different. A female reply
to this book might change the course of the book. There might be some certain
revelations that will come and some of it might sound justifiable. No doubt,
Tina is wrong in her own way but a novel told by her will be a sort of picaresque
novel.
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