Small Fingernails by J Peters is a beautifully written part romance, part biographical novel. Though the novel is short, its narrative has strict voice and an amazing sense of intensity. After reading it in one sitting at night, I woke up with a feeling that love is a delicate fabric, only those who care for it can handle and deserve it. Since the protagonist of the novel is a college lad ‘Jacques’, I personally feel that the novel got a juvenile attitude towards a tender feeling called love. It is right to reckon that the young lad screwed up his love life owing to mean friends around and some mental instability issues. From college guys, maturity cannot be expected overnight, thus I understood why there were a lot of mood swings and disturbances when the lead guy is chasing his girl Dorothea. The story is backdropped against a college in Freedomtown where the lead character Jacques is all excited about his coming college years, especially when he gets into a group of fr...
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