Review: Another glimpse of paradise
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 31, 2014
First, I recommend this book to those who love a serious and convicted read from an author serious about her craft and bringing the reader entertainment and intelligent thought.  Even with this review and my personal feelings on this book, it does not begin to touch or encompass what this book holds inside or unfolds for you as a reader. I must admit that even though I read the excerpt from the book and knew the synopsis, I still made up in my mind how this was going to turn out and who the hero actually would turn out to be, I totally thought the book was going to be about something and someone else completely. Psyche!  So good...It is played out scene by scene with scalpel-like precision.  This ride is so worth the price of admission.  This is a trip through mystery, intrigue, build up, suspense,  firework's, rainbows, unicorns, music coming from the sky kind of love based in what could actually exist in reality.  Haha right?  Ms. Laveen's writing is in the IR genre, but color is not a "thing" it just is and I appreciate that.  We do not have to be beat in the head or reminded that there should be conflict because of culture and ethnicity.  Why should we?  There are no immature descriptions here of how much either party is paid, how much their car cost, or the fact that they are embarking on a venture that "they refuse to name" it just is. *You all know what I mean.*As in all of Ms. Laveen's offerings, a form (or forms) of human nature is critically explored in detail and handled with care and conviction.  There is a true plot, conflict, a climax, and a resolution.  Always she goes through the parts of a novel as they should be.  If you are a reader of intelligent writing, you look for these issues in determining if your time has been well spent.  If the tale was well spun, and are you satisfied with the result.  In this particular book it is paralyzing fear and the affects of abandonment and finding ones' true self through the facade that we sometimes paint of our blurry life.  It is about no matter what happened in your past, you are not your past, you are much more and it does not have to mold and form your world or future; trusting and stepping out on faith when you are too afraid to breath for fear your lungs will seize, your heart will stop and your brain will atrophy.  It is about the risk and chance we take to have it all, a second chance at life and self.  Even at the cost of sanity and all that you have been taught is right, what you won't do for love.This book is exciting, loving, laugh out loud funny and very painful.  It is scenic, wild, eccentric, colorful and bursting with vivid images and speak out loud phrases you want to repeat just so you can hear them on your own lips to see how they taste.  While there is a definite bleep in the relationship, as I always say of this author, she NEVER leaves love on the line or in question.  The heroine drinks in the difficult, deceptive and painful situation but at the end of the thought, at the very end of the thought, even before the hero completely turns to walk off, in that instant, that gust of breath, she knows, no matter the storm they are riding together and will see it through, no matter...I am Tiana Laveen Team Hell Yeah all day, every day.  "We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes." Paul Laurence Dunbar