Review: Armando’s daughter

Armando’s daughter by R.J.Blute is a fictional novel depicting time period of late Sixties. Author himself was a teenager in late sixties and so is his protagonist, Armando’s daughter, Cassandra and now this might be my pure speculative instinct speaking but this must be the reason why this novel came into being. Writing style of R.J.Blute is good but can improve a lot with small tweaks.

One way to describe the main character, Cassandra is to tell you, she is Funny & have trait of acting stupidly or rashly and not just that she is way too much sarcastic, so no matter what reader think about this book but he/she is going to learn few great comeback lines of all time. The name Armando got that weight which without telling let readers know he's Don and would be something like good old Godfather, and that's exactly who he is a Sicilian Mafia. His contribution in the novel is not likely to arouse any controversy because he surely is an interesting character. Similarly Grandmother of Cassandra, Nonna, she is brainsick or to be more polite she is affected with insanity. There were times when I couldn't put finger on who is suppose to be brutal Grandma or Armando.

Cassandra’s mom's boyfriend is making indecent advances towards Cassandra so to get rid of him she sought professional help of her father Armando. Now the question is How would Armando punish him? Or would he? What would Cassandra do on her own? etc.. Fairly detailed, this book is 320 pages of entertainment, except for dialogs; they were way too much accented for my liking few lines here and there is one thing & on every page is exactly opposite. With a sigh, i told myself "Calmati" (calm down) and completed this book within a week.

Here’s a good example of dialogs, where Armando is talking with Eddie

 “Relax Eddie, will ya. I’m wit my muddah and daughter, fer Christsakes. Just get me a table, my legs are botherin me. And fer Christsakes, do not stick us by da shitters!”

This book is what you call average, nothing too flashy (except funny & gritty) nothing too feeble (except some highly accented dialogs). This book excels on point of having a good Plot to build a strong story but lacks on point of actually building it. So with that this book is 3 out of 5 stars.