Raising the Enemy [Unabridged] [Audible Audio Edition]
By Dominique Wilkins
Publisher: Dominique Wilkins
Published: Nov. 3, 2014
ASIN: B00PCSPZ8C
Amazon Audible Synopsis:
Patricia was in a relationship with
Carlos, who fulfilled many of her needs, but not the important ones. She stayed
until she began to bear children and realized exactly how selfish he was.
Merely supporting his family with a job was no longer enough for her. So, two
children later, in frustration, she finally faces the fact that Carlos was not
the man they needed and left him. Her plan takes an unexpected downturn when
her son Paul decides that now that they've moved, he is the new man of the
house and should control his mother. They have a constant struggle for
domination throughout Paul's teen years as he questions Patricia's judgment and
fights to rule the household. Their struggle for control reaches an inevitable
climax, when bad things are said, hurtful things are done. Then there was an
accident. As all accidents do, it commands for a wake up and a change. Find out
what changes has the accident caused. Will the conflict get worse, decrease, or
make Paul immediately regret every word or thing he did to disrespect his
mother and try to take it all back?
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Patricia and her
teenage son Paul fought constantly through his teenage years before the
accident killed her and Paul’s younger sister the night they have nasty words
and Patricia kicks him out of the car to walk the rest of the way home in the
cold and dark.
While Paul was
growing up he watched the interactions that his mother had with Carlos, the man
she lived with and how he treated her. When Patricia left Carlos because he
wasn’t able to truly be there for her and the children except to pay the bills,
Paul started behaving like Carlos and talking to Patricia with the same manner
and attitude.
Raising the Enemy is about how sometimes it feels more like
our children feel like our enemies rather than people we love. There are times
when all we seem to get from them is confrontation after confrontation until as
parents we are at our wits end and we just want to scream at them as Patricia
did.
This story reminds
parents that they are not alone when they feel like all they ever do is fight
with their teens. They are given verses from the Bible related to the
situations in the story that may be helpful to the reader.
If Patricia had
known when she met Carlos that her relationship with him would have caused all
the twists and turns in her life and made her feel like living with her son was
raising the enemy, she probably would have thought twice about getting together
with him. Those twists and turns affected Paul profoundly and permanently. You’ll
have to listen to the book to the end to find out how.
I thought that the
book was quite interesting and would touch a nerve with most parents of
teenagers as I think parent-teen relationship are fraught with a lot of tension
at times.
I had a problem with
my copy of this book as it kept skipping all the way through the book. At each
skipping point, a few words would be missing. I don’t think anything important
was missing, but it was very annoying listening to the skipping in the
recording.
I didn’t always see
how the scripture related to the portion of the story that it was next to. Most
of the time it was very clear, but sometimes I scratched my head in puzzlement
at the relationship. This was even after I had listened to the story several
times.
Overall, I found Raising the Enemy a very interesting
story to listen to. The reader’s enunciation was clear. I gave this book 3
stars out of 5 rather than 4 stars out of 5 due to the skipping of the
recording all throughout the book.
Thank you to the author
for providing a copy of the book in exchange for a fair and honest review. A
positive opinion was not required. All thoughts are my own.
About the Author:
My name is Dominique Wilkins. I am a mother of five children.
In the past year, I have written and self-published numerous short stories with
different themes that I hope that people will enjoy and relate to. I am very
proud of the reviews they have received thus far. I pray that readers will want
me to continue to do this for the rest of my life. I too, was a product of my
environment, which I was influenced by, before I found God and began to love
myself and children all over again. I write books, so that others will feel the
same way and want to make changes. Please feel free to visit me www.AuthorDWilkinsGOODbooks.com or download the Author Dominique Wilkins
app!
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