Attain Someday Never Comes Articulated By M.K. Kayem Formatted As Audio Books

good story. So well written I wanna hug the autor, Shyro has been traumatized and ripped from his mother while very young, Sold and alone, he finds himself facing the hard facts about what being a slave really means, He strives to become perfectly obedient, without giving up his vague dream of "someday" as he grows up, At the age of sixteen, he meets and then falls for a wounded warrior who gives him a glimpse of what his life could be, he runs from the heartless man who owns his body to the one who owns his heart, only to find Jera already has a lover, someone he could never compete with, and he has to struggle to find his own true worth.
Set in Rome during the rule of Emperor Nero, first century

Status: Complete
Word count: approx,,.stars
This was such a difficult read! An emotional, sad, angsty and depressing, but nonetheless a hopeful story, Shyro, a boy born in slavery, is uprooted from everything that is familiar to him, and thrown into the harsh reality of the Roman Empire, It's about his life, or at least the most defining part of it, His hope for a Someday is all that keeps him from not giving up, It's about the survival of a boy who is slowly forced to become a man,

At the end we're left with a few words from the authors that clearly describe best this Someday Never Comes's essential message:

Does not the life of one such as he i.
e. Shyro carry forever a testament to the human spirit Were not his struggles and his survival, even the depths of his joy in the face of adversity, . . and his courage the telling of a larger tale A tale from a time past that in many ways just keeps repeating and is mirrored in our own world today, Is his story not also our story

Shyro will not be remembered, but nevertheless, now his story is told, and perhaps, dear reader, during difficult time, you put others before yourself and strive to do what is right, you'll be reminded, for that spirit lives in the heart of all of us.
Think then, for a moment, of the past, as tribute to all such as he, for although Shyro may or may not have been real, there were many like him who were.


And perhaps, Someday, somewhere in the great expanse of time before us when those of us here now are nothing but dust, a strangers heart may give thanks for ours.
I'm going for.stars. I enjoyed parts of it, but it depressed me constantly, This book troubled me a lot because again and again, I feared the main character would never know when to stop opening his mouth, . . and I did not mean it for sexual favors,

There was so much bitterness in the story, although welltold, that got me so upset and I wondered how one so small, so fragile, would withstand all those hardship.
It was painful to read on the torments and torture Shyro had to go through, . and even more painful for readers to know that when they had thought Shyro had found happiness, it was gone because of his poor control of his mouth, . It made me want to be more in control of my speech,

It was a harsh story, Still, it was a good story, It pained me to read on the slavery and the vulgar sex tortures the slaves had to endure,

Good lord, I actually finished it,

Eh. I'll say this, the book did inspire me to look up certain historical facts, and, . . damn, you can't make this shit up, So points for that.

On the other hand, I really didn't like it, Yet I kept reading, the process accompanied by lots of face palming, groaning and "for fuck's sake, again" I just had to know how it ended,

I had a hard time actually liking the MC, and the text frequently celebrating his forgiving nature, his perky spirit and innocence, while heaping abuse upon abuse on the poor sod had me grinding my teeth.
Then the benevolent General was thrown into the mix and I nearly blew a fuse, Sure, this guy was miles better than the shit that went down before, but that didn't stop it from being badwrong to the extreme, But the text went all purple prose on me, horrible saccharine writing trying to make me cheer for a milder sort of abuse, The MC's wide eyed adoration of the guy, sure, I could accept that to some degree, But to sugarcoat it like that It didn't sit well with me, Almost felt like I was back reading "The Vampire Armand" and that's not an experience I ever want to repeat,

The writing in general bothered me, The perspective shifted from character to character without warning, sometimes you'd have multiple POV's in the same chapter and it felt somewhat jarring, And the dialogue was extremely stilted and flowery, No way in hell would uneducated slaves actually talk like that,

Things did improve somewhat towards the end, but not enough to stop the entire experience from being one giant but somehow educational face palm,

Sounds meh. Mk Kayem mk km is the pen name for two writers specializing in alternative lifestylesand alternative worlds, The results of our endeavers can be intense, We strive for gut wrenching, heartbreaking, heartwarming and poignant tales mirroring the worst, the very worst of human nature and what that often brings out, which is the very best.
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