Despite Imperfections

 

Cymbeline Villamin writes in simple narratives with an occasional dazzling prose at peak moments. Her major concern is not much on polishing language into silver but to get the characters moving towards their destination, and arrive safely at the port.  In the final city, they must possess discernment and acceptance at long last.

Romance in her fiction is at all times a forbidden encounter that blossoms and withers, of course, but not without leaving a gem of self knowledge that empowers.

It seems the female protagonists are driven to fall in and out of love for the sake of further enlightenment over the dynamics and intricacies of relationships between man and woman. Just like a perennial student who is endlessly learning but never arrives at grasping the truth.

Because life is like that. You could never know what you would get until you open the box of Pandora, until you bite into the forbidden fruit.

That said, it is time to declare that despite its imperfections, Cymbeline’s fiction is RRR: really riveting read.

Cymbeline has just completed Ang Maghuhurno which is already available on Web book shops and from the author herself via direct order through email or private message. She is finishing the 30-day novella challenge by 8Letters with her Lovers in Kyoto. Soon she will resume writing The Baker of Silang, and then start on Agape AI, a sci-fi romance, and it's translation, Ang Babaeng Bakal sa Bituka ni Teo.