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This book review summarizes the novel "Avenues of Diamonds". It introduces the main protagonists, Samantha Vera and Clyden Ramirez, who are forced into an engagement by their parents but mutually dislike each other. Samantha is kind yet reserved, while Clyden is aloof and derides emotions. They decide to pretend to be in a relationship until they can come up with an excuse to break up. The review notes the story examines how perfection is a matter of perspective, and how opportunities can slip through one's fingers if blindly pursuing dreams. The key lesson is that it's okay to ask for help from others and to shine on your own terms by pursuing one's own happiness

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Book Review

This book review summarizes the novel "Avenues of Diamonds". It introduces the main protagonists, Samantha Vera and Clyden Ramirez, who are forced into an engagement by their parents but mutually dislike each other. Samantha is kind yet reserved, while Clyden is aloof and derides emotions. They decide to pretend to be in a relationship until they can come up with an excuse to break up. The review notes the story examines how perfection is a matter of perspective, and how opportunities can slip through one's fingers if blindly pursuing dreams. The key lesson is that it's okay to ask for help from others and to shine on your own terms by pursuing one's own happiness

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Icy Joyce Rahon

Grade 11-HE

A book review

on story

“Avenues of Diamonds”

Perfection is a matter of perspective. The Avenues of the Diamond novel proves this
conclusively for us. We may have our dreams and plans for the future. Not always the world
works according to our wishes and desires. Sometimes we are sure what is it that we want to
have and achieve. Other times we leave it to fate. The conviction of our ideas in the former case
blinds us. Sometimes in anticipation of gems, we might slip the diamonds from our hands.
Losing the opportunity forever.

In this story, Samantha Vera and Clyden Ramirez are the protagonists in this story.
Samantha is different from other girls of her age. A perfect example of a girl every guy would
like to be around. This kind-hearted girl lives with her politician father and mother who was a
famous actress once. The two never went along together. But still are managing to live along
under the same roof. There is a third person at her home. It is her sister from another mother. She
started living with them when her mother died. Reserved and living in a world of her own,
Samantha makes futile attempts to be around her stepsister and connect with her in an emphatic
relationship of two siblings. The female protagonist Samantha is not just kind. She is a perfect
example of grace, sympathy, and solicitude to say the least. She is liked by all her friends and is
the best child of her parents. She still would be the best if she had half a dozen more siblings,
such is her demeanor. This reminder is about the promise she made to the family when she
decided to take mass communication instead of the Political Sciences which the parents preferred
for her. She also got a condo to live in and go to university from, in addition to a car. All these
were granted in return for her promise to marry someone.
This someone is the son of her father’s best friend. This man named Clyden Ramirez he is a
doctor and one of the toppers in the medical university he is studying. She has never met him and
never seen him before. On a quick social media search, she cannot find any link as well. The
only way is to find him and know him at the meeting arranged soon by the parents. This is going
to be the graduation ceremony of her future fiancé and the occasion of their engagement as well.
On their first meet, they are two different people they soon realize. But being the best children of
their respective parents, they are unable to say no and reject this arrangement of the relationship
immediately. Avenues of the Diamond is the story of this mutually unwanted love affair they
would have to act in from now on. Thus they decide to play along until an appropriate time in the
future where they will break up with an excuse acceptable for the parents on both sides. The
socializing and emphatic Samantha finds her fiancé a bibliophile, aloof, and deride of any
emotions.

The lesson you can learn from this story is that, it’s okay not to be okay. It’s okay to need
help and ask for help. There’s always someone who will always be with you. It’s okay to reach
for the stars but do not get taken away by its brightness. You can shine on your own, like
Samantha Vera. You shine t6he brightest when you’re happy.

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