Title: Channer's language is at once lush and livid.
Product review: I picked Waiting in Vain at the local Wal-Mart while waiting for my roommate to thumb through the latest issue of Cosmo. From the cover I judged it to be just another Arabesque-like romance. Surprise!! It was not!! In fact, it has been a while since I read a book with such voluptuous language, so full and ripe that it nearly dribbled down the page, like one of Fire's mango's.Channer's language is at once lush and livid. His characters explode off the page only to score themselves indelibly on the brain. And why? Because we've all loved like Fire, we've all been as lost as Sylvia, and we've all needed as much understanding as Ian. I've never been to Jamaica, but as I read I feel her rhythms, I smell the fresh earth, and my palate is filled with rich spices that I have never tasted. Being of partial Jamaican descent, Waiting In Vain makes me long for the home I've never known.Thank you Colin Channer for such a beautiful depiction of life.
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