Islands

Rating:
Summary: Islands creates a voodoo of its own.
Review: Sara Stamey's "Islands" is a masterful amalgam of murder mystery, anthropology, voodoo, and scuba diving. Add to this already potent mix wonderful character development and a deft rendering of the physical environment and you've got a real winner of a novel here. I highly recommend it!

Rating:
Summary: Islands creates a voodoo of its own.
Review: Sara Stamey's "Islands" is a masterful amalgam of murder mystery, anthropology, voodoo, and scuba diving. Add to this already potent mix wonderful character development and a deft rendering of the physical environment and you've got a real winner of a novel here. I highly recommend it!

Rating:
Summary: Sultry, Sexy, Psychic Suspense
Review: This is a terrific book! Susan Dunne arrives on a Caribbean island with a grant to study petroglyphs. But her agenda also includes an
investigation into her brother's "accidental" drowning on the same island a year earlier. Almost immediately Susan finds that the island's sunny, touristy exterior conceals (barely) a dark, mysterious underbelly where nothing is as it seems, and it is into this world that she is inexorably drawn. Attempts to remain "objective" are swept away, and
Susan is forced to confront her own dark secrets, and the psychic powers that the island seems to magnify.

Stamey's writing is beautifully evocative--her own experience living in the Caribbean and as a SCUBA instructor shine though--and the characters are all strong.

Everyone I know who has read this book has loved it--in fact the most common comments I hear are, "This should be a movie!", and, "When's the sequel coming out?."

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Rating:
Summary: Sultry, Sexy, Psychic Suspense
Review: This is a terrific book! Susan Dunne arrives on a Caribbean island with a grant to study petroglyphs. But her agenda also includes an
investigation into her brother's "accidental" drowning on the same island a year earlier. Almost immediately Susan finds that the island's sunny, touristy exterior conceals (barely) a dark, mysterious underbelly where nothing is as it seems, and it is into this world that she is inexorably drawn. Attempts to remain "objective" are swept away, and
Susan is forced to confront her own dark secrets, and the psychic powers that the island seems to magnify.

Stamey's writing is beautifully evocative--her own experience living in the Caribbean and as a SCUBA instructor shine though--and the characters are all strong.

Everyone I know who has read this book has loved it--in fact the most common comments I hear are, "This should be a movie!", and, "When's the sequel coming out?."

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