Review: Opium Dreams - An Absolute Must-Read...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 7, 2013
... not only for the fans of Kiana Davenport.Not for nothing Kiana Davenport's short stories gather prices everywhere and all around the globe.But those who have readShark Dialogueset.al. - as I did - the Hawai'ian stories, the way she wrote them and the sometimes shocking descriptions come along not so totally surprising...These stories - set in Western Samoa, Hawai'i, Aotearoa aka New Zealand, Hawai'i and Georgia - transport the readers full speed into the exotic settings. But as I said, this is an absolute specialty of this so gifted authoress.In "The Night of the Worm" a Samoan woman almost gives up on the philandering of her husband with white women. But she learns by an enamored Englishman what she can do to show her true worth to her totally surprised man...The "Opium Dreams" take a beautiful Chinese-Hawai'ian into her wonderland because of the cold heart of her father. Her sister who seems to remain a spinster, tries everything to help her. But it's her who finally finds love and respect from a guilt-ridden paniolo - an island cowboy and his half-inuit son..."Maoritanga" is the proudness of the Maori of their ancestors, but one Maori woman grieving for her brother killed in the Gulf War sinks into a life of homelessness, prostitution, even murder. But Maoritanga will help her to give new heart into the way of living with her tribe...There are "Bullets flying over Hollywood" when a hot-blooded Hawai'ian half-blood revenges the betrayal of her husband in a most spectacular way. But Hubby and her twins don't give up so easily - and finally our hothead is ready to share a real tragedy with them...The last story "The Speed of Light" is touching in a very special way. An Hawai'ian interior decorator changes the lives of a small, racist, Southern town, and introduces people to real beauty. Dying a slow and painful death, he has to teach a lot to one bigotted redneck, before taking his own life...Those who read these stories and want more, there are two other collections by Kiana DavenportHOUSE OF SKIN PRIZE-WINNING STORIES IandCANNIBAL NIGHTS Pacific Stories, Volume II.All three collections are also together in a gift box:PRIZE-WINNING PACIFIC STORIES (SPECIAL EDITION BOXED SET VOL. I-III) HOUSE OF SKIN, CANNIBAL NIGHTS, OPIUM DREAMS.I have just started the second e-book and it's great like this third one and the first one!I will always wait for the next book from Kiana Davenport to come out because she is a most important voice in the choir of the Pacific based authoresses who try to emancipate their sisters in this real cradle of humanity...Highly recommended!