Kiana Lee steps into the spotlight in a major way with Love is the Cure. Once you meet Nate and Jessie there's no turning back. It's hard to take your eyes off of this pair. Set in one the most beautiful locations in the world,Hawaii, these two find solace in the environment and later in each othe...
It's been awhile since I read Shark Dialogues, and I'd forgotten the sensual Hawaiian-ness in Davenport's writing style. Every one of the senses is wide awake and open to a deep experience of the physical world.
I liked the first 70ish pages about the matriarch Kelonikoa, the daughter of a Tahitian chief. The writing was colorful and vibrant. Hawaiian history and geogarphy were wonderfully described. But now, Pono, Kelonikoa's great granddaughter, has come on stage. The writing is just too dramatic, too gra...
This book utterly defies categorization. It begins with a brief introduction of four girl cousins winging their way back to Pono's coffee farm in the 1990s. Then it jumps back in time and becomes historical fiction with a smattering of magical realism. Hawaii's sad and painful past is covered, wit...
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