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Aaron Powell served as a Marine during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice and a Psychology minor. He also completed a second Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration at Ashford University where he graduated with distinction in 2011. Aaron Powell is the author of the Doomsday Diaries series, C-Town, and Benjamin. He enjoys reading – particularly military history/non-fiction – writing, and is an active marksman. Aaron and his wife, Michelle, and son, Luke, live near Austin, Texas.
Reviewed by Alysha Allen for Readers' Favorite
"C-Town" acts as the prequel to Aaron Powell’s engaging "Doomsday Diaries" series, as the story of Luke Mitchell’s father, Patrick, told within the span of his sexually promiscuous and carefree youth.
Patrick Mitchell is a community college student whose sublime passion and delight derives from the time spent in his local karate dojo, and shamelessly flirting with his co-worker at the YMCA. However, in the town of Corning, New York, with nothing else to do but to ride around town looking for fun, Patrick, who remains directionless, encounters a life-altering event that will allow him the opportunity to change the course of his life, and in turn, that of innumerable others.
For a book that starts off with kicking some racist redneck behind, I have to say I was hooked instantly. Following an orgiastic romp in bed, one of many, also served to further intrigue me. "C-Town" is one of those books that will leave an impression on you long after you have finished it. As for myself, I couldn’t help attempting to dissect what exactly the message and meaning of this book was, as if it held an abstracted wisdom that could be gleaned upon deeper inspection, other than serving to be a precursor novel to its successors. But one can be distracted from this mission with all of the generous amount of sex scenes to daze our focus and muddy rational thought. Though, I shouldn’t really blame all of it on the salacious and carnal hard-core mating, for the book in itself lacks almost any definite structural plot and any concrete, threatening conflict that would contribute to shaping the message of the work more explicitly. Instead, a mundane and familiar representation of life and its trivialities is made through the perspective of a young man, from the prevalent banalities of hanging out with friends with nothing to do, to the random, nonsensical experiences, such as psychotropic mind-bending acid trips. Considering this, it would effectually work as a stand-alone novel better than as a prequel.
Despite these reasons, "C-Town" still remarkably and laudably retains a vivifying complexity and animated narrative that charms and entertains the reader into an attitude of nostalgia for rash and adventurous youth, with its subversive, playfully anarchic prose.
