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Title: Right up my alley!
Review: The first chapter is a real attention grabber and on the whole the plot is good, smudged a bit when the author takes the reader down a path of past lives and supernatural issues and the ocean blue eyes of Blue Hamilton. Too bad becasue her story about living in a safe, secure neighbourhood where a woman doesn't have to "notice a man coming up behind her and it's okay" (pg 282) is right on.The author excelled in the many nuances throughout the story. On page 23 I found this African proverb very interesting. "The hunter is always the good guy until the story is told by the lion." Then on page 193 the author criticizes a pop culture "in which manhood is defined by cars and clothes and random sex and money made by any means necessary" rather than being tied to family and community by "ribbons of love and protection and responsibility and caring." Excellently put and I agree with her wholeheartedly.
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