Resurgence

Revolt

Right from the inception of literature, books which story arcs reflect realistic fiction and thrive on the vices of human relationships have always existed. These book themes narrate the ups and downs of relationships of all kind, both romantic and platonic alike and always have a societal vice, embedded in them that boggles the mind of the reader and attempt to teach a lesson, or reflect the consequence of falling prey to a relationship shenanigan that many are victims of.

Popular relationship vices include; same-sex best friend relationships, often perceived to be a disguise for romance. Phenomenal principles, like ‘Opposites attract’ when in reality, its much more complicated or even non-romantic vices such, as the working mechanism of change and whether people are actually capable of changing.

These novels are committed to telling a compelling story of a vice(s) and its lasting consequences. Asides from entertainment value, they function in impacting society and correcting certain shortcomings, if they manage to strike the right emotional cords with the reader.

These stories aren't genre fiction, and are of course literary fiction since they can't be essentially classified under a category, because their story elements vary, from story to story and take different forms to pass its messages.

These stories are flexible, volatile and usually more effective in fighting the ills and misconceptions of the society, in contrast to other mediums such as non fiction articles or motivational speeches, because the recipient of the message is not just given advice to correct their course of life, but is shown a vivid and explicit depiction of the vice in 'operation' itself, and the ensuing consequence of being overpowered by it.

But then the million dollar question? How come these stories are yet to gain massive prominence, and global frenzied reception? Simple. The orientation of the novelists at the helm, since its birth isn't overly concerned about its entertainment value. The novelists that started this train of stories, prioritized it's educative element, way over that of its entertainment and so these books, are hardly intriguing and not beloved by bulk of readers, as it is no news—people read fiction, to find solace and escape the cut throat reality.

The status quo remained thus, until a fateful day in February 2017. A young, sixteen year old Nigerian author of two foreign novels, was researching and seeking inspiration for his very first native book and the direction to go, when he stumbled upon a novel titled, Kissing Is The Easy Part on Wattpad. Skeptical about its quality, he read nonetheless and was absolutely mind blown with its content.

He had a vague idea, of the working principle of such stories, but this book was nothing, but glaring evidence that the entertainment proportion and educative arcs, could be fused to achieve a perfect equilibrium. It was nothing, but proof that a story with so much sociology impact, could be every bit as fun and enthralling as the average genre fiction novel. This young author also realized, that miniature facets affiliated with his groundbreaking discovery, was embedded in his old novels—as he had ventured into its domain, unconsciously without realizing it.

Inspired, he set about to writing his third novel, deciding to fully exploit and tap the resources of this literary gem. The novel, Rebellion went on to become his most critically acclaimed and widely loved novel. For it's revolutionary elements. One of the few of it's kind, that succeeded in impacting certain throes, of relationships without diminishing its entertaining value.

This novelist is of course yours truly, but don't let us get sidetracked. Then the need to give these stories an identity, arose and it was only natural that I used relationship, because of the fact that human relationships that are the bedrock of said stories. Christine Duan, the author of Kissing Is The Easy part, inspired the naming, as she called her book a relationship book, when it was being referred to a romance one.

A lot of readers misconstrue relationship novels for romance, because most relationship novels focus on the vices of romantic relationships but of course, these stories can come in any form, as far as they satisfy the following criteria;

I. They must be realistic, but not to the detriment of entertainment.

II. The crux of the story must thrive on the relationship existing between all characters, and not just the major ones.

III. They must treat vices of human relationships, and in turn teach a lesson—either actively or passively.

Any story that satisfies these three prerequisites, is a relationship novel. And so it can be relationship thriller, relationship action/adventure, relationship horror, relationship fantasy, any genre basically.

That's the most fascinating thing about the relationship genre. It's not necessarily a genre in essence because it can come in any genre form, and so still can't be uniquely classified but unlike other works of literary fiction, it has an umbrella that encompasses it all and still enhances unique classification to a good extent.

So it's in the middle bearings of genre and literary fiction, perfectly balanced and carrying out its duty as the bridge between both worlds.

Earlier on in the foreword of this book, I talked briefly on what this Relationship means, but it wasn't fully fledged so I took it upon myself to write a more in depth analysis. The Repel Series, which started with Rebellion, continued with Resurgence, and is going to end with Revolt of course belongs to the Relationship genre.

Revolt is coming on the 30th of August, as you can see in the photo above—so anticipate!!! The protagonists of the novel are returning, supporting characters from Rebellion, so go read it to ensure optimum enjoyment of Revolt. The stories are independent of each other, hut you'd enjoy the latter more if you've read the former. Now for the synopsis;

Anjola Adeite is an extremely logical person in all her dealings, even in matters notorious for emotional entanglement clauses. Although a bit of a wallflower on the relationship turf, she has a well defined criteria for choosing romantic partners with healthy traits—that wouldn't derail her rational path.

Lekan Keye is the quintessential playboy. All about the sensual uncensored pleasures, never about the commitment and devotion. As an atheist of relationships, he believes the price of commitment is too costly and so indulges in temporal, sexual arrangements.

After the planning of a crucial event, forced them into close proximity and triggers a forbidden attraction, they find themselves at an impasse. For Anjola, it's the fact that she's never had feelings for a wild person like Lekan—who on the other hand, seeks the reason why he's pull to Anjola isn't singularly borne out of lust.

When they conduct an experiment to test their compatibility however, Anjola relies on the proven principle that posits that—a change of character is possible for Lekan, as long as there is enough fuel driving him.

Fuel they wrongly assume, to be love.

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So spread the word, anticipate and go catch up on Rebellion, Revolt is coming soon!!!