Caribbean Charade

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Summary: A read for all ages
Review: An excellent book for all ages. I loved the characters and the exotic destinations described. I recommend it to anyone looking for a good read.

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Summary: A magic recipe
Review: Here's the recipe: Take a sweet, hard working girl and a passionate but emotionally deficient man, and stir them thoroughly in a confined environment with a breathtaking sea view; when near to boiling, add one villain (who also happens to be a male chauvinist); finally, sprinkle the mixture with a liberal portion of feminine humor, reminiscent of P.G. Wodehouse's "The Girl on the Boat", and let simmer until golden-brown; now you've got a perfect "Caribbean Charade".

In "Caribbean Charade" Louise Perry has created a delightful tangle of misunderstandings, and of innocent and not-so-innocent plots, which makes you gulp the story down. There is nothing along the way to slow your reading, perhaps also because the description of the wonderful places where the plot unravels is so vivid that the reader is transported right there, to the island or the ship deck, where he can feel the pulse of the events.

Although it has been clearly written with a female outlook on life, male readers (the non-chauvinist ones) will also find it entertaining to discover how strange, erratic and illogical their peers may be, when they really get down to it.
So read "Caribbean Charade", don't gulp it... if you can resist the charming flavor of this magic concoction.