Love has as many shades as there are people living on the planet. And yet, in this endless variety, it is possible to distinguish certain patterns, draw parallels and, guided by an understanding of human psychology and personal experience, write books worthy of attention. Their heroes will become some kind of collective images. And the situations through which they will go will be close and familiar to many, which will allow, relying on the scenarios proposed by the writer, to solve their own problems.
Julia Kameneva is an author who speaks to her audience about relationships. She examines them from different angles. However, the theme of love between a man and a woman is one of the leading in all of her four books - "Give Me a Poodle", "Let's Ride a Horse", "Friends or Love" and "The Seventh Roll." The heroes of the stories are not at all alike. And therefore the emotions they experience differ dramatically.
This is how Olga, who is described in the work "Give Me a Poodle", looks at the world through an egocentric prism. She loves not a specific person who is next to her, but what he can offer her. Living according to a plan that undergoes changes depending on fashion and momentary desires, she perceives this feeling as a kind of passion combined with the satisfaction of personal needs and ambitions that have arisen here and now under the pressure of circumstances and public opinion. At the same time, Nadezhda from the novel “Let's Ride A Horse” is prone to quiet, sacrificial love, devoid of exactingness. Patience and anticipation are the two main manifestations of her feelings. She can forgive and gives her heart not for any reason, but contrary to logic and common sense. But, if the situation forces him to, he can live independently, without leaning on someone else's shoulder. After all, she has enough willpower for change and a new beginning, if a psychological or physical need arises for it.
The novels "To be friends or to love" and "The seventh somersault" are difficult to consider in such a narrow way, since they have a lot of heroes. On the pages of these books, Yulia Kameneva turned around to the fullest, having managed to show all the variety of possible relationships. This is a platonic feeling on the border of love and friendship, and a fierce passion that sweeps away obstacles, and the choice of a partner for a better life and successful motherhood, and sacrifice in the name of a dear person, and complete dependence on your soulmate and his desires, and a heroic feeling, implying the desire to make a loved one happy … In a word, as in life, the writer's works have room for imagination and variety, which makes each story unique. Collected all together within the framework of one book, they are intended to emphasize how unique each person is and how strongly dependent it is on the society in which it exists.
Which book by Yulia Kameneva should be read first in order to better understand the author's true attitude to the issue? It probably makes sense to pay attention to the novels "Let's ride" and "Friends or love." They have more hope, in the rays of which it is easier to walk along the dark tunnel of life. And this bright perception is typical of the author's mentality. In the works "Present me a poodle" and "The seventh somersault" there is more tension and more instructiveness, which is also characteristic of the work of Yulia Kameneva. The heroes have to sort out their own mistakes, going through difficult trials and difficult choices again and again, so that, perhaps one day, get a chance to fix everything and catch the bird of happiness in their nets. Are they for love? This is another question. And he certainly sounds on the pages of all the books of the writer.
