REVIEW
Unbreakable by
William Frederick Cooper is the 3rd
book that chronicles William McCall’s emotional journey after losing the love
of his life Linda Woodson. It has been seven-years after Linda’s death and
William is still grieving her loss. Valentine’s Day (their favorite day) he
drowns his sorrows at a local bar he frequents in New York where he lives. Here
is where he meets Keisha Gray a schoolteacher that resides in Michigan that is
in New York to see the man that she loves. Tired of being the other woman
Keisha decides that she needs to break the relationship off. Realizing that it
is not fair to her or the man’s wife.
When William and
Keisha see each other again the next day William is looking broken since he
thinks he lost the last remaining piece of Linda and Keisha is going through
her own struggle. With nowhere to go Keisha takes William up on his offer to
travel with him to visit Linda’s parents. As they drive through the different
states they soon form a bond from the love of Michael Jackson’s music. During
the journey there are some self-discoveries within themselves that awaken their
soul. With a little time and with the love for Michael Jackson and God will
these two find a love that will be unbreakable?
Unbreakable by William Frederick Cooper was a
confusing read to say at best. Before expressing what I did not like about the
book let me at least point out the good. One of the things I really liked is
that there were a lot of good quotes throughout the book. Thought provoking
quotes. The other was that Mr. Cooper is poetic in his writing style. With the
last being said the poetic writing style of his works to a point because the
book because too drawn out and wordy then it becomes a negative thing. In
reading the synopsis I noticed that it was never mentioned that Unbreakable
happens to be part of series. Although I am sure his previous novels are
stand-alone, it still chronicles the journey of the main character.
I am puzzled at what Mr. Cooper was trying to
attempt with this story. At times it read of a love story, at others it read
like a Michael Jackson tribute and then to a Christian Fiction type of read.
This novel could have easily been written within half of the 414 pages the
novel was. This book was HEAVILY and I stress the word heavily geared toward
“the gloved wonder”, singer, Michael Jackson.
Mr. Cooper also goes on to talk about politics,
things in the news, adversity of the plight of our young black men. Which has
NOTHING to do with this story. So the story drags on. His description of
certain things such as the sex scenes came off a little weird. Example: Mr.
Cooper constantly uses the word “stems” when referring to a woman’s legs. There
are parts of the story that is predictable and the ending was too rushed and
far-fetched to be believable. Another thing that was confusing is that the
story is told from first person then switches to a narrator…who that narrator
is this reader still has no clue.
Honestly this was just a bad read, had Mr. Cooper
concentrated on the love story and worked on a more believable ending instead
of talking about MJ and getting off topic so much this could have been a good
read.
2 Stars
Leona
