What Are We Reading Now? - Roman Candle

 

Roman Candle

by nowforruin

 Review by idealistic4ever

“I was growing tired of the road I had chosen, but was still far too proud to admit it.”

"I miss you. The real you. The one I fell in love with...You're one of the smartest people I've ever met. And you're wasting it.”

"I'm tired of watching everyone else move on with their lives, Edward.”

Official Story Summary: Edward went to NYU dreaming of a future surrounded by academia. He ended up bartending in Brooklyn. Now he finds himself stuck with a bad job and a bad girlfriend.

One fateful breakup, a blizzard, and several bottles of liquid gold—anything can happen. No one ever said that finding the right path in life would be easy.

His life once held all the allure and possibility of living in a big city, but Edward Cullen soon finds out that life sometimes forcefully removes those rose colored glasses. Tending bar and living with long time girlfriend, Jessica, in New York City, he is growing more and more frustrated with his life.

They hated each other in high school, but when their paths crossed freshman year of college, they both had a change of heart. Four years later, Jessica has graduated and Edward is tending bar. She wants to go home; he refuses to swallow his pride.

Bella Swan is a hard ass, working the bar scene for most of her adult life. She has worked with Edward for the past four years. She doesn’t understand him; he thinks she despises him.

Roman Candle is something akin to a coming of age story for twenty-somethings. It speaks to that period in our lives when we want to be treated as an adult, we want to own our decisions, be our own keepers so-to-speak. Sometimes, though, owning those fateful decisions isn’t always that easy. Sometimes, clarity comes in the form of life-changing bitch slap.

A good story is based somewhat on personal experience, providing a more realistic take with which we, the readers, will be able to connect with. A really good story blurs the line between fiction and reality. Author, nowforruin, effortlessly melds the fictional plot line with reality as we discover what it feels like to make choices that sometimes don’t always turn out the way we thought they would.

It only takes one life altering experience to change everything, and for Edward, that change has been standing next to him, almost everyday, for the last four years. Looking through Edward’s eyes, readers will discover for the first time or rediscover all over again, a certain youthful innocence in how the world works. Sometimes the only choice is to make that crucial mistake in order to find our way back to the straight and narrow.