Randy Love At Your Service Sparknotes

Randy Love at Your Service by Shay Carter took me by surprise. Randy Love is your average twenty-something bachelor trying to make a name for himself, at least in the eyes of his father, John Love, who won't get off Randy's case about going back to university. All Randy wants to do is make easy money, live life without strenuous commitments and shag any girl who he considers worth his time. As his sister Heather puts it, Randy sees himself as “Zeus descending from Mount Olympus to lay favor at the door of his minions.” Although childish, Randy is exceptionally clever and, when he wants to be, he can be just as charming. In this coming of age novel, author Shay Carter introduces us to an idiosyncratic cast of characters who will make us laugh, cry, and cry from laughter.

The title and cover of the book did not appeal to me one bit. If I had overlooked the description of Randy Love at Your Service I would have just brushed it off like it was any other generic contemporary work of fiction, and even then the description was a bit dry and does this novel absolutely no justice. The introduction allows readers to glimpse Carter's understanding of humor and the human heart. It offers us insight into the Love family and rightfully so because if Carter had not gone into depth about
His chapters seem to become episodic sitcoms, peep shows of the hijinx which Randy Love gets himself into and despite being a fan of British comedy shows, I couldn’t fully appreciate all the boisterous fun being presented to me, despite how devastatingly well written it all was. I felt like Carter lost some sense of direction when trying to get from Point A to Point B in his