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Deborah Turrell Atkinson

Autor(a) de Primitive Secrets

4 Works 98 Membros 4 Críticas

About the Author

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Séries

Obras por Deborah Turrell Atkinson

Primitive Secrets (2002) 42 exemplares
Fire Prayer (2007) 24 exemplares
The Green Room (2005) 23 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
mid 1950's
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Locais de residência
Southern Ohio
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Educação
University of Michigan
Iowa Writers' Workshop

Membros

Críticas

Being in Hawaii made reading this well crafted mystery all the more fun. Lots of cool details and surfing.
 
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laurenbufferd | 2 outras críticas | Nov 14, 2016 |
Mystery was well thought out and I truly enjoyed the surfing scenes as I don't think I'll ever participate in that sport. I felt the waves, adrenaline and sore muscles while reading this one! I was dissapointed in the end though. I don't think the character was developed in enough detail for me to see the ending as believable.
½
 
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laurie_library | 2 outras críticas | Apr 13, 2009 |
Reviewed for Front Street Reviews

This is Atkinson’s second book, after 2002’s Primitive Secrets, to feature Storm Kayama, a promising young Hawaiian lawyer who is working to build a thriving practice. Storm jumps at the chance to assist a client referred by long-estranged cousin Nahoa. Even though Storm would prefer not to ever handle divorce proceedings she just recently passed the bar and beggars can’t be choosers. Stephanie Barstow is the wife of surf promoter Marty Barstow. Originally from Hawaii, she followed her husband to the mainland when they married. Now she’s returned to the Islands, with son Ben - a promising young surfer - to put as much space between her and her estranged husband as possible. This divorce could get messy!

When Ben invites Storm to watch him compete, Storm is understandably eager. Not only are surf meets exciting, but she’ll have a chance to reacquaint herself with cousin Nahoa, also competing and one of the top ranked surfers worldwide. The atmosphere is a little more subdued than usual, as another top-ranked surfer has recently died under strange and mysterious circumstances. Are the Barstow’s and the missing surfer linked? If so, how?

Things are going swimmingly until a young boy delivers a package to Nahoa. The package contains a leo o manō, or shark’s tooth club, used in lua, an ancient form of Hawaiian warfare. This isn’t a gift; it’s a warning, or a threat. When Nahoa disappears without warning, Storm becomes worried that he didn’t take the warning seriously enough…

Atkinson peppers the book with Hawaiian lore and lingo and includes a helpful glossary to allow the reader to keep up. She paints a fascinating verbal picture of the stunning panorama that is Hawaii, and keeps the action flowing with exciting descriptions of Storm and her friends riding the waves. Atkinson’s characters are well fleshed out and entice the reader to care about their predicaments, making the stunning conclusion all the more an edge of the seat thrill ride. Several interesting subplots are intermixed with the main story, including Storm’s struggle to overcome her fear of the green room which combined with memories of a tragedy from her past hold her back from really enjoying the water.

The green room is a term that surfer’s use to refer to the underwater space where a surfer is shoved by a wave or dives to escape the crush of tons of churning water. It’s a scary place to be. Inside you are disoriented, buffeted, unable to tell up from down. Everything is just green.
… (mais)
½
 
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sarradee | 2 outras críticas | Apr 12, 2007 |

Estatísticas

Obras
4
Membros
98
Popularidade
#193,038
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Críticas
4
ISBN
24

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