ZAAN by Kat Mizera
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lexi has had it. She has been touring the world with some of the worst human beings on earth. She is done. Then an ooportunity arrives to be with her ex again. Will she take it?

Zaan has always loved Lexi. To have the chance to be with her again is like a dream. Can he take the chance and hope they were grown up enough to weather the issues now?

Characters that are sexy in their own right, and then putting them back together? Be still my heart. If you caught the prequel, you know these two were never going to stay apart. With an exciting new series started, I was pleased to see some favorite returning characters. The heat was turned up on this story. I loved to see the caring and sincere way the MC's had about one another. I cannot wait to see what is next for this series.


***This early copy was given in exchange for a review with candor and sincerity.

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About the Author:

USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author Kat Mizera is a South Florida native. Born in Miami Beach with a healthy dose of wanderlust, she's called Los Angeles, Long Island, upstate New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Atlanta home. She's never been able to pick which locale is her favorite, but if pressed, she'd probably choose the west coast.

A typical PTA mom with a wonderful and supportive husband (Kevin) and two amazing boys (Nick and Max), Kat can usually be found scrapbooking or indulging in her second love (after writing) - traveling. Greece is one of her favorite places in the world. She loves that Athens is a big city with a small-town feel. The food, beaches and culture keep her going back as often as possible.

Kat's been a working freelance writer for nearly 30 years. She sold her first article--a review of a rock concert--for $10 in 1985. Since then she's been an entertainment journalist, waitress, bartender, legal assistant, food critic, magazine editor, substitute teacher, and sports writer. She also spent some time working at A & M Records in Los Angeles.

As you can guess from her Las Vegas Sidewinders series, Kat loves hockey and occasionally writes articles about her favorite team, the Florida Panthers. The rest of the time, she writes novels: sexy, romantic fiction that she hopes makes you as happy as it makes her. There's something enticing about hockey players and romance...

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Lexi has had it. She has been touring the world with some of the worst human beings on earth.  She is done.  Then an ooportunity arrives to be with her ex again.  Will she take it?

Zaan has always loved Lexi.  To have the chance to be with her again is like a dream.  Can he take the chance and hope they were grown up enough to weather the issues now?

Characters that are sexy in their own right, and then putting them back together?  Be still my heart.  If you caught the prequel, you know these two were never going to stay apart.  With an exciting new series started, I was pleased to see some favorite returning characters.  The heat was turned up on this story.  I loved to see the caring and sincere way the MC's had about one another.  I cannot wait to see what is next for this series.  I give this a 4/5 Kitty's Paws UP!

***This early copy was given in exchange for a review with candor and sincerity.

First love gets a second chance...

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It’s a lot to pack into 475 pages, and the author balances the story of her family with a broader historical perspective. The history appears well-researched, and based on her bibliography, draws heavily on Vietnamese as well as English-language sources. It also seems balanced; at times, when family members’ paths during the war diverge sharply, we get separate chapters covering the same events from different perspectives, and the author doesn’t seem to be advocating for either one over the other. Though the author’s parents threw in their lot with the French and later South Vietnam, she – like many Vietnamese – seems to respect the communists’ commitment, and while the American intervention was a short-term boon for middle-class families like hers, she ultimately seems to conclude that the communist victory was both inevitable and not as awful as propaganda had led the South Vietnamese to expect.

The book’s biggest weakness is that it is rather dry, much more focused on facts than building a dramatic narrative. Though it is in part a memoir, we learn little about the author herself; she tends to relate the facts of a situation with perhaps a bald statement of her feelings, but without developing any of the emotional detail that might allow readers to experience the story along with her. There are exceptions, though; her account of the dramatic last days before the fall of Saigon (through the eyes of several family members) is downright gripping.

Overall, I’d recommend this book, but more for educational purposes than entertainment. It is a strong answer to the rest of English-language literature about Vietnam, which tends to be from an American perspective and focused exclusively on the war.