Yey! I wasn't totally enamored with The Buried Giant and Nocturnes (and I've yet to read The Unconsoled and An Artist of the Floating World), but I'm a fan of his on the basis of Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day, and When We Were Orphans alone.
Congratulations, Mr. Ishiguro!
Title: Â When Ash Remains
Authors: Â Dena Garson
Publisher: Â D. C.
Reviewed By: Â Arlena Dean
Rating: Five
Review:
"When Ash Remains" by Dena GarsonÂ
My Thoughts...
What a story that will definitely takes one on a quite a journey that comes together so well as a good  'Native American' historical paranormal romance story.  This author really works her magic in giving the reader as story of Ahyoka and Kajika which their destiny that brought them together. We find Kajika is a alpha warrior who found Ahyoka who was a 'Spirit Talker' while he was on the hunt of a killer of his cousin and family. These two were very for the most part opposites but made up for it as they complimented each other in others ways. I liked how this author brings out the 'spiritual magic' to the story.  Will these two be able to track down a murderous beast to stop it from more killings? What these two could do together was truly unique in the way it was all handled. This will be quite interesting read as it is brought out so well to the reader.  It was a very good read of how these two people who comes together battling 'unforeseen forces' and oh yes I loved the lusty, steamy, and spicy heated romance.  To get the whole story and answer to many questions the reader will have to pick up 'When Ash Remains' to see how well this author presents it to the readers.  Would I recommend?Â
Yes, especially if you are a paranormal book lover.Â
The Remains of Love by Israeli best-selling writer Zeruya Shalev traces the lives of Hemda Horovitz, her daughter Dina and her son Avner. Hemda could never love enough Dina while she suffocated Avner with all her love. Both children suffered. Avner is trapped in a loveless marriage, but he doesn’t have the courage to change anything. Things take a new course for him, when he witnesses the loving consolations which a woman addresses to her dying husband in the hospital. Dina isn’t happy, either. She has a sixteen-year-old daughter, Nitzan, who withdraws from her ever more and her husband Gideon doesn’t understand her feeling of loss. She yearns for the love of and for a child and wants to adopt a boy from Siberia. As Hemda’s health deteriorates and death approaches, her children step out of her shadow and liberating themselves from the emotional ties at last they take life into their own hands.
It took me a while to get into the novel. Sentences are long and the fact that Zeruya Shalev uses alternating streams of consciousness is a bit confusing at first because it inevitably means that the narrative perspective constantly changes. In addition the story is multi-layered and complex, but Zeruya Shalev narrates it with much skill and without contradictions or loose ends. All in all I found it easy to follow the plot once I had got used to the style. I thoroughly enjoyed The Remains of Love by Zeruya Shalev. The book offered me a glimpse into a country outside my usual literary perception and beyond media coverage of closed borders or conflicts regarding Jewish settlements.
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