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I feel kind of terrible about the review I'm about to write because it's going to be harsh and it's going to be crazy long. Sorry to the author because I hate going on about the negatives in a book for most of my review, but there was a lot here that frustrated me, especially after some people had talked it up so much. I purchased this book after seeing a lot of recommendations on a couple of pages I follow that recommends alpha male characters and the like. It was described as a bully romance, has a lot of good reviews and talks about the H being a bit over the top. He was, but like a spoiled, young male might tend to be and in no diabolical, complex manner unfortunately, making the book fall pretty flat for me. He wasn't strong and swoon-worthy - he was basically a kid. I thought this book read like a juvenile, teen romance. I honestly find it hard to believe so many older women (as in, not in their teens) loved it. It's like a high school version of 50 Shades but with a few non-consensual scenes thrown in to stand out and 'heat' things up. And make no mistake about it, it is sexual assault in the book, not romance, which makes a lot of the novel ridiculous and poorly communicated. The way the story panned out was a series of wtf's followed by nonsense - repeat cycle - making the story sound like tripe.*** Major spoilers below ***Okay, so I'll sum up the book here. Carter is the king of the school: Quarterback, rich (of course), handsome and crazy popular. Zoey is a quiet, Churchy nerd who is studying hard to try and get a free ride into college via a scholarship. She's felt up inappropriately by a member of the football team (Jake) and reports him, resulting in him being suspended from the team for the rest of the year and her being blacklisted by not only the town's community as a whole, but her entire school and even her own mother (who was a bit of a drip, so no loss there). She has only a couple of friends and eats on her own, etc. because pretty much everyone hates her guts. One lunch time when she's trying to find somewhere to eat on her own, she is set upon by Jake, Carter (our H) and some other douche on the hopes of intimidating and scaring her enough that she recounts her story so Jake can rejoin the team. She's forced into a classroom where they strip her to her panties and forcibly restrain her and feel her breasts. Carter, the ring leader, forces Jake to hold her and then has him and the other tosser to watch the door. He proceeds to force Zoey to her knees and says really romantic things to her along the lines of try not to vomit, if you don't give me oral, I'll stick it in your c*** and if you bite me I'll knock out your teeth and I mean it. Upon the threat of rape where Carter explains to her and his friends that's he'll use her virgin blood as lubricant, Zoey gives Carter a blow job. They then leave her to cry and I'm assuming go to have lunch. Well, after this, Carter couldn't help but be enamoured by Zoey. Who couldn't???Carter likes the fact that she doesn't care what people think and stands by her convictions. He likes her so much, he turns up at her house the next day after she's called in sick to ask her to dinner and meet her mother. He also takes the opportunity to feel her breasts again as he can't stop thinking about him. I know what you're thinking - what a catch! He's not impressed when she turns him down and promises her he'll get his way - something he does throughout the book because he's the king of their town. I know he is because he said it several times as did others. The book then continues with a monotonous repeat of the same old, same old. Carter pursues Zoey. Zoey seems okay with it and lets him get away with it, not because she's a victim but because his abusive behaviour really intrigues her and she wants to be a psychologist in the future. Throughout the course of their day to day romance, he takes her virginity when she said no (he literally just thrust it in so it was out of the way), forces/strongly suggests/cajoles/blackmails her into giving him sex and blow jobs, threatens to sexually assault her best friend if she doesn't turn up to a party and gets said Churchy friend drunk, pressures Zoey into situations she has said no to and exchanges favours for sex of which she is a willing negotiator. Chuck in a few dates, getting to know each other, him having a secret child (don't know where this came from) when he was 13, a mother with recurring depression and a douche of a father and you have the book. It's basically Carter trying to get Zoey to stay with him and trying to get his way by dropping casual threats and promises. I didn't find him so much of a bully, which of course he was to a degree, as an arrogant prick. So to me, the title should be Untouchable: An arrogant prick romance.Zoey was apparently a very bright girl. She did not come across as this is the book. She didn't seem naive, but just plain stupid. Her recurring theme seemed to be, 'Don't do this, I don't want to, oh, okay you can, or, it's alright that you did, we'll just move on like it's another day because I actually really like you even though you only noticed me on the day you sexually assaulted me'. Carter was athletic, popular, good looking and rich so of course his behaviour was totally fine and acceptable. He had a rough time growing up as a rich boy, so it's really not his fault. Zoey wants to fix him (hello again, 50 Shades). Yawwwn.I have read a lot of dark romance and similar genre so obviously dark content doesn't bother me. It didn't bother me in this book, although I understand why many reviewers flipped their lid over the content in this book. Personally, although some content was tasteless (which is why I sometimes like dark reads - sue me), I didn't find it excessive through the book. A few scenes and phrases won't be up some people's alley, so if you don't like rape, sexual assault and the like in books, don't buy it. The author clearly indicates the sensitive nature of some of the material in this book as do many reviewers so I don't get why people then purchase said book only to say it was terrible and disgusting due to darker content. That's why the warning is there, petal! Anyway, even though the content was dubious, that's not my main reason for disliking this book.I'm going to list a few things in the book that really drove me to tears. There are a lot, so hold onto your hats as the spoilers continue. I didn't mind the premise of the book - it was the follow through that I found poor, turning this into a fantasy novel more than a bully romance. Carter is basically grooming Zoey for sex abuse and the events and dialogue that take place are laughable at times. This book is only told from Zoey's point a of view and she waffles on continuously. If Zoey was thinking it, we got to hear about it so the story became bland and repetitive quickly. Her reaction to her assault is literally unbelievable. She flirts with him and constantly exchanges dry and lengthy banter. She initiates conversation and actively tries to get to know him and learn more about his ideas, thoughts and life in general as he tries to charm her, resorting to blackmail and veiled threats when that doesn't work. Zoey also treats her interaction with Carter as a competition or a game (she actually says this) and wants to win. Righhhhht.One of my major problems with this book is the inconsistent themes. Carter threatens to rape and sexually assault her and then is made out to be this affable guy. The author wants us to excuse this behaviour and have a soft spot for him because he just really likes Zoey. This is so juvenile. He's depraved! But it's okay, I'm going to be nice to him because he brought his cute little sister along and I'm a really nice person. He talks explicitly to Zoey and turns up at her place of work where she can't afford to get fired. She's always engaging in playful banter with Carter. She's constantly bringing up her assault in a lighthearted or dry way. Who would have thought that a teenager would find abuse so funny?! But again, it's okay because he's super popular. What drivel. She even accepts gifts from him because isn't that the sweetest! What are we supposed to be buying into here? She's wary of him, but constantly puts herself in situations where she's alone with him and lets him get his way. I didn't find this bullying, I found it leaning more towards stupidity.Carter refers to owing Zoey a meal several times as she gave him a blow job...which he forced her to do. Just wow. Zoey constantly uses the word 'rapey', e.g. 'If you ignore the things that make him repugnant - like his whole rapey jock thing, for example - Carter is actually pretty all right to hang out with.' Yeah, because rape is so funny, so she then goes out with him for lunch on a school day for wings because she was hungry. Zoey then worries that she's putting herself in a dangerous situation and that a date would give him the wrong idea. Do you think??? She says because of this he's an entitled a$$hole - no, mate. He's a rapist and a predator. That's not actually bullying. Zoey feels mean if she has to tell him no (about anything including sexual advances). This makes her an absolute idiot. Carter gets her off after basically forcing her to attend a party by threatening to sexually assault her friend. She feels 'gratitude and affection' so gets him off as well. She hangs out with his friends who were horrible to her at school. Zoey uses her assault as a defense in an argument with another girl because it shows Carter wants to sleep with her and not his ex. And on the ex, she was in the book a bit as well because she so desperately wanted Carter. Blech. Carter continually has sex with Zoey without a condom even though she asked him several times to please use one and then makes jokes about this all the time. Like, for chapters. Because unprotected sex after he had non-consexual sex with you is a hoot! This then leads to them both making chapters of jokes about being married or her stalking him at college. So juvenile. He won't answer her when she asks about his child (at one point she's convinced herself it's his ex's as she thinks she can see similarities) and when he gets upset and won't answer her, Zoey initiates sex. There are bouts of jealousy from both of them. She gets on birth control just in case he rapes her. Carter went to his ex's house to maybe sleep with her, depending on how he felt. Zoey complains that Carter doesn't want her but then whinges when he leaves. She tells him to rape her. I kid you not. After all this, she lets Carter's rich father pay her tuition to Columbia so they can be together where she studies psychology to become a counsellor. It's just laughable at this point. Oh, and the cream on the cake? Carter says he's really glad he stumbled across Zoey. Stumbled/assaulted - same, same.I'm sorry for the length of this and that I now seem to be ranting, but this is only some of the rubbish brought up. It went from the ridiculous to the ludicrous.The entire book is set amongst a teenage context as they are 18. While the writing was okay, it reflected high school problems in a teenage way which probably had a lot to do with my disliking how the story was told. Unless you're a teenager or are prone to wanting to be/think like one, this isn't appealing. It's one thing to escape into fiction. I do this often and understand this was a school setting, but I don't like it when the writing as well as the themes tend to be inconsistent and immature.I almost gave it one star, but didn't because I have read a couple of books that were worse. I gave it an extra star because the writing wasn't terrible, i.e. grammatical errors, and it was a really decent length. The cover was nice eye candy. Unfortunately, it was about $4 too expensive. I would expect a book written along these juvenile lines to be 99c or free. It almost makes me want to give it only one star. Not the worst thing I've read, but not too far off it. It could have been really good, but read like tripe with some assault thrown in to make it a supposedly dark read. I felt like I was in high school. If you liked the abysmal 50 Shades or have a boring life and like to live vicariously through teenage romance novels where the protagonist is a teenage boy who physically and emotionally abuses the girl he likes, this is for you. Sigh.

This is one of those books that I know in real life I'd cock punch the hero (use pretty loosely here) and throw gas on him and than light him on fire, for the horrible thing he pulls right out of the gate of this book. I mean I was reading those first chapters with my hand in front of eyes peeking between my fingers. I really couldn't fathom what I read and like a car crash...I couldn't look away.I kept reading and thinking no way I'm going to like this a-hole and no way I'm going to be convinced the heroine somehow magically falls in love and I'd believe it. But to my utter shock I found myself invested and actually liking Carter Mahoney. By the time I closed the book I could believe that our heroine Zoey fell for him. It's crazy but it happened. I am still shocked myself. It's that same confused feeling I had when I ended up loving Caleb from Captive in the Dark. You know it's all wrong and you keep telling yourself this is fiction cause in the real world none of this would be OK at all.I will warn others right now this is not a book for everyone. There is some serious crap that happens right away and is unforgivable and frankly makes the hero a messed up psychotic sociopath. The fact that they are seniors in high school but are 18 years of age will be a hard pill so swallow for others. I mean it, it if you even remotely want to give this book a chance and you think After books by Anna Todd or Beautiful series by Jamie McGuire were dysfunctional and abusive then you will definitely not like this book cause those books in my opinion aren't even dysfunctional and abusive at all compared to this one.Somehow I still found that I enjoyed the messed up and crazy story of Carter and Zoey. As crazy as it was. Seriously not sure if my review even makes sense. Anyway read it if you enjoy those dark crazy romance.

This book would have been good if the female lead wasn’t a brain-dead idiot. The author clearly didn’t want to spend time developing a realistic character and chose instead to make her lead character act in a way that suited the story she built rather than how the characters should have acted.Here we have a sweet, honorable, intelligent girl who is also a virgin get assaulted by the “hero” and forced on her knees to give him oral, unless she would rather be raped. Then this girl gets so curious about the guy who assaulted her and threatens her that she decides so needs to spend some time and get to know him. She is also afraid of hurting his feelings because if he did a bad thing it must mean someone was mean to him at some point?The author is great at writing but what she wrote here made me really angry, not because it was dark or because the male lead assaults the female lead (I expected it due to it being dark) but because the girl starts off being very intelligent and then just becomes a dumb doormat. Author lost out on a great opportunity to show growth for both characters and they just ended up being extremely unrealistic and annoying.read the sample and keep in mind she isn’t that bothered about the assault and wants to know her rapist. If that doesn’t bother you and you enjoy her writing you’ll love this books.

Maybe I am a little twisted to feel this way but I was absolutely engrossed in this book. I hated Carter to start. I almost didn't continue but his obsession with Zoey just got me! I love how he would stop at nothing to be with her. I know he wasn't a warm a fuzzy H. I know his actions weren't lovey and endearing but they were hot! He wanted her so much he wouldn't let anyone or anything get in his way. Who doesn't want a guy to want you at all cost!? Carter was an @sshole but I loved him. At least he owned his crazy.

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The reasoning is naïve but we understand that in fact she keeps that MAN under pressure because she has some accounts to settle with men in general, her husband in particular, Luke. Brother Boxer expresses the principle that women must be under the control of men and he will use that argument against Margaret to dispose of her, not only depose her: she has no man to control her. Her husband Luke did not abandon his family, as she has pretended for ten years, but she left her husband taking her son along after the still-born delivery of her second child, a daughter. It is revealed later that she baby was still born because of the parents' poverty and the mother's undernourishment. No use discussing this argument. Let's take it at face value.Luke is a jazz trombone player and he does not make a lot of money and runs along with the main flaw of this activity: alcoholism. He turns up in the play on his last leg before dying. The confrontation is difficult and Margaret is obliged to acknowledge she left him and not the reverse. This becomes at once a major shortcoming in Margaret for the main opposition embodied in Sister Moore who immediately airs the idea that a woman pastor has to be pure. If abandoned by her husband she is the victim of men. But if it is the reverse she is impure whereas she, Sister Moore, has never known, nor desired, a man, at least so she says. This myth of purity on the side of women is absolutely reduced to sexual virginity. It is in no way a purity of the heart, or the soul, but only of the sexual drive that has to be inexistent. There the play is particularly caustic because Margaret discovers little by little that she still loves Luke and has always loved Luke, and she comes to the idea that Christianity is founded on love: a Christian is supposed to love all his or her neighbors as himself or herself. That blocks any kind of rejection, of any neighbor on any possible motive. If you love you also forgive. It is not an obligation, it is an implication. If there is no forgiveness there is no love. Margaret discovers this little by little. And she steps down from the pulpit at the end because she has finally understood that.This then enables us to see the alienating role or use of religion in society when this religion becomes a fundamentalist reading of the Bible. Note it is not the Bible that is at stake. It is not Christianity that is at stake. It is valid for all religions. Any fundamentalist reading of any "sacred" text is necessarily in contradiction with the modern world and hence leads necessarily to bigotry. Religion is not a revealed something from high in the sky, but an invention of mankind to cope with the world and the human species' survival and expansion. Then, and this is a fundamental attitude of all men or women, the invention is fetishized into a sacred and untouchable text that has to be interpreted only in one way. When we know the tremendous variety of interpretation of the Christian canon to be a fundamentalist sounds slightly crazy. But it is exactly the same thing with Islam or Buddhism. This play shows that bigotry based on a fundamentalist reading of the Bible in so many details of concrete real material and spiritual life, that it becomes at this level a real manifesto: religion has to be an inspiration to love and cannot be in anyway the justification of any rejection. Margaret understands that when her unwavering dogma rejects her husband she still loves, leads her son to going away to live his own life and not be stifled or choked to death by his mother, and then also in her very un-empathetic reaction to Ida Jackson's demand whose suffering: child is withering away and finally dies in hospital. The first reaction is to advise this mother to leave her husband, which she refuses to do. The second piece of advice is to accept the will of God who knows better what the mother needs. The woman then reacts strongly because she considers she does not need that suffering, but she needs love and does not find it. The woman has lost two children and Margaret's only wise crack (for her it is wisdom of course) is to advise the mother to make another child. The best part is that Margaret falls from her pulpit pushed by a woman with the support of a man and another woman on the basis of arguments of the same cruel inspiration, well not that inspired, rather very ill-motivated by the same cruel vision of life.Music is important in this play, as always with James Baldwin. The father, Luke, is a jazz trombone player. The son, David, is, or is to be, a jazz piano player. Music is fundamental in this church too with an evolution about how to use it from a plain piano, or keyboard today, which is the very minimum in a black church, though with a lot of singing, to the introduction of drums and horns of some kind coming from a sister church in Philadelphia. Music is here again the core and heart of David's self and objective in life. Note he is perfectly well named since King David was the founder of the music school of Jerusalem some 25 centuries ago. The father, Luke, is also well named since he is one of the Gospel writers and Luke's Gospel is supposed to be the most sensitive and empathetic, Luke being a doctor by profession and well accustomed to dealing with suffering. A lot should be said on these two names and men.Music is seen in its human ambiguity. Music is transcendence from real material life to spiritual mental beauty, but at the same time it is also surrounded by alcohol, tobacco, prostitution or "fornication" in bars and night clubs. It is difficult for a musician to avoid being tempted. Note in this early play by Baldwin the theme of music being the field of multiple mergers, among them love and any kind of love including gay love, is not yet present or developed. Yet this music is attached to the love David dreams or remembers at first for his father and then the same love he finally meets in reality, his father being there in front of him. This love is expressed by the borrowing and bringing to the apartment of a phonograph to play a record of his own father's old trombone playing. A gift to his father, an epiphanic experience for David and a disturbing yet revelational moment for Margaret. It is probably the hearing of that trombone music that determines Margaret to accept to step down from the pulpit without a fight. She is moving towards another phase in her life that will have to do with love since she will have to recapture David's love after finding him in the bid city.The final level that is universal here is the relations between a father, a mother and a son, not so much from the points of view of the mother or the father, but from the point of view of the son. When a son is raised in an atmosphere that is too heavy, he feels pressurized and will have the natural tendency of lying to be able to develop his own private and personal life. When time comes the son will have to leave and no one will be able to stop him. The father will have to be there because his absence is a loss and the son may go out to find him, to establish contact with him or any substitute or surrogate. The mother is essential too but she may be choking the boy into withering and that is lethal. It is natural that the son wants to go out and leave to live his own life. It is sick for any son to remain locked up in the family and his parents, and in this case his mother only. It is often easier for the father to accept the departure of his son than it is for a mother to accept and support it. This play insists on the necessity for the son to avoid excessive attachment to the mother and for the mother to avoid excessive overpowering control over the son. Strangely enough it seems that the presence of the father is a guarantee that the mother should not be overwhelmingly possessive. The mother cannot decide what the son will be and do, and what's more the mother must not decide what the son will be and do. But that is difficult for a mother, alienating in a way and frustrating.When all that is said we have to wonder what makes this play black and not white. In fact only small details are typically black, starting with the numerous gospels sung in the church and in plain life. Then this musical dimension is at once widened by jazz brought in by the father, and then by the son, and here to we have a black reference.But there are smaller details that show how black the play is. It is often connections with the other fiction by James Baldwin. Ida Jackson's son is called Daniel and one of the last songs in Just Above My head is also Daniel (with the "cup of trembling" brought by the burden of the Word of the Lord [Zechariah, 12:1-3], echoed by Sister Moore, the ambitious bigot, when she says that she has "to burden your [Margaret's] sister with a heavy burden" the way the son Daniel becomes a burden for Margaret in her lack of empathy) and this Daniel song is sung by Arthur Montana in Paris. This Daniel makes three male names with a Biblical dimension. This Biblical inspiration is basic in black religion and life.Then Brother Boxer reporting on David says: ". . . not five minutes ago, I seen him down on 125th Street with some white horn player - the one he say he go to school with - and two other boys and three girls. . . That boy [David] had a cigarette between his lips and had his hand on one of them girls, a real common-looking, black little thing, he had his hand on her. . ." We can even note this report on the girl is slightly racist, at least condescending.Margaret even goes one step further in the racist apprehension of the connection between David and some woman when she accuses David who arrives in the morning of his last Sunday in the family after a night out: "stinking from whiskey and some no-count dirty black girl's sweat."But the main black trait of the play is the language which is Black American English all along. But apart from these few details and the language itself the play is dealing with universal themes and problems. And that explains why it was badly received by white critics who probably considered that black man was noty exactly minding his own black business, at the time of the first production, but at the same time it may explain the vast support and acceptance from the mostly black audience that came to see the show.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

The Amen Corner was a very well written play about a woman who leaves her husband and tries to start a new life with her son as a minister of an all black church. Eventually she has to face her past and her long lost husband. The Amen Corner is a very compelling play with fleshed out characters that many people find believable and can relate to. I liked The Amen Corner because it reflected real life where there is not always a happy ending.

The main characters are Sister Boxer, Brother Boxer, Sister Jackson, Sister Moore, Odessa, Margaret, Luke, and David. What I really liked about the play was the dialect. The wording really did fit in very good. It was also a very down to earth play. Some of the problems that the main characters faced were every day problems, for instance, David (Margaret's boy) came home drunk when he was so into church (at least that is what his mom thought), and Margaret is a holy person and her husband is a very non believer of the such. Luke was just a person who simply did what made him feel comfortable. All in all, it was a good play and it kept my attention at all times. there were a few things that I didn't like but I will just keep my personal opinions to myself.

The best play I have ever read was The Amen Corner. James Baldwin's first drama would speak to anyone who can read and understand what was happening in the late 50s. If I lived back then and was black, I would have thought things were very unfair. For example, can you imagine the protagonist, Margaret Alexander, not being able to call an ambulance when she is bleeding to death and about to lose her baby, because she is black? Baldwin does an excellent job of portraying the issues black people faced in and out the church in Harlem. I recommend this play to anyone of any color.

The main characters are Sister Boxer, Brother Boxer, Sister Jackson, Sister Moore, Odessa, Margaret, Luke, and David. What I really liked about the play was the dialect. The wording really did fit in very good. It was also a very down to earth play. Some of the problems that the main characters faced were every day problems, for instance, David (Margaret's boy) came home drunk when he was so into church (at least that is what his mom thought), and Margaret is a holy person and her husband is a very non believer of the such. Luke was just a person who simply did what made him feel comfortable. All in all, it was a good play and it kept my attention at all times. there were a few things that I didn't like but I will just keep my personal opinions to myself.

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In my acting class, I was assigned a scene from this wonderful piece of literature. I believe I read it years ago but this reading was exceptional. As I read, I could see the characters like a movie. Great read for everyone!

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