Character Breakdown
Talayah- She is at the height of her life. At almost thirty she has accomplished a lot. Coming from where she is from, Talayah has beat the odds. Knowing the value of ownership, she runs a successful hair salon where her natural talents have made her a celebrity. Priding herself on making every client feel reborn once they leave her chair, nothing feels better than knowing that she effects someone life. The only thing is she doesn't know how she can be so amazing to everyone in the world but nothing to the one she loves.
Antonio- A very intelligent man who has fell on hard times. Times that leave him mentally in a dark space. He feels like all he needs is the support of the love of his soul. Whom he feels is just like life in her ability to beat him down. With the world on his shoulders he has no outlet. We all know its easy to hurt the ones you love even when you don't mean too.
Yasir- Definitely your definition of "Black Excellence". He runs a successful engineering firm and that speaks to the life breathed into him by a hard working single mother. Everything in his life is legit, except for love. He meets a woman who not only called to his inner Male, but she activates his Superman. It is nothing he wouldn't do to save her.
Story From My Perspective
From the beginning you recognize that this book is rife with pain. It is born of the frustration of a woman who just wants her man to stand in his birthright. You can't support a King if he don't recognize his own greatness. This is the every day mantra of Talayah's life.
Never in a million years would she have imagined having all the success in the world but not the success of love. Especially after damn near a decade of loving and uplifting her man. No what she has found is that love unrequited is tiring and leaves her wanting to quit. The thing is that her heart does not understand that the very thing it desires is slowly killing it. It wasn't always like that between her and Antonio. It is the memories of what was that keeps her holding onto hope that he will change. But she doesn't realize that change is a personal attainment. No matter how much you want it for someone else, they have to want it for themselves.
Antonio is by all intents and purposes troubled. He is unemployed and all his girl does is nag him. At least that is how his heart views it. Where she sees him at his lowest and should be holding him up all she wants to do is tear him down. Well since she has no faith in him he becomes the embodiment of her low opinion. Where your lady is supposed to be your light, sometimes they can bring out the darkness.
Yasir above anything else is happy to have escaped the streets that threatened to swallow him whole. By following the example and advice of his mother he used education as a means to avoid the hood. No matter if some of his closest friends are knee deep in the life.
He is a man that has paved his own way. Living life on his own terms he never intended to meet a woman who whispered to his soul. In her eyes he saw many promises but for right now she belongs to someone else. It doesn't stop his heart from pursuing.
The issues discussed in this book range a broad spectrum of topics. Everything from being a ride or die to watching the love you hold dear pretty much die. I also really appreciated the way that this author addressed the subject of Domestic Violence. Not just he hit her and she hit him back. No this author got deep inside of the indecision one faces when they are on the receiving end of abuse. The emotions and the war that transpires between your head and heart. A fact that had me understanding the story in a deeper fashion. Take this trip with me by downloading this amazing work and be sure to come back and discuss it with me.
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