Review: House of Skin - An Absolute Must-Read...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 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 Hawai'i, Hawai'i/New York, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Nauru, Vanuatu - transport the readers full speed into the exotic settings. But as I said, this is an absolute specialty of this so gifted authoress.Some readers may be shocked by the ending of the first story which gives the selection its name, but it couldn't absolutely end in an other way!"The Lipstick Tree" sounds so harmless, but gives us a brutal insight of a Stone Age culture that strangles and murders the women and their offspring on Papua New Guinea until today...In "Dragon Seed" the Vietnam war, love, hate, life and death, corporal as well as mental illness and personal developments are brought to us in a bold and brutally provocative way...The Nauru, Fiji and Vanuatu stories are always taylored on the relative island's settings and the most different situations of their inhabitants. Great roles for the nature, the traditions, the difference of the people who live on those oh so paradisian isles and atolls and their very personal dramas..."War Doll Hotel" is the gripping story of a "half-caste" from Hawai'ian mother and Alabama born-and-bred father who is searching her real identity, finding a great part of it in the solidary group of women from all around the world...The "Bones of the Inner Ear" after all is a shocking drama of what ascendency of the family, surroundings, environment and last but surely not least the GENES are influencing us and our nearest (but NOT always dearest) in the better and also in the worst ways. Simply shocking, but at the same time awakening!Those who read those stories and want more, there are two other collections by Kiana DavenportCANNIBAL NIGHTS Pacific Stories, Volume IIandOPIUM DREAMS, Pacific Stories Volume III.All three 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 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!