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Nihon Nights
Abigail Dennis, an English World employee and head of the Nagoya schools in Japan, finds her relationship with London Crane, a teacher, threatened by the disappearance of several of her nationwide counterparts and her refusal to leave Japan and return home to protect herself. Original.
273 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2006
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September 25, 2013
This book had its good points and its bad points, but mostly it was kind of flat.It never did get under my skin. I usually do not get to read books in the African American Interracial romance genre because they are routinely stolen from the public library. One of the librarians did a search for me for some of the more popular titles in the genre and they all had been stolen from every library they had been placed in in the entire United States. That's sad. I checked out a copy of a romance novel about a cyborg which was written in the 1970s, as the original was still on the shelf. When thievery is so bad that none of the books from a genre are available from the library, it is almost as if they are not a part of the collection of American fiction.
Anyway, apparently living in Japan is just as frosty and alienating for an African American person as I thought it would be. Nevertheless, the main character enjoys it and the authors poignantly describe some beautiful scenes and instances of Japanese culture. The way the main love interest's financial situation is introduced was refreshing. Even though the authors tried to incorporate a bit of a thriller into the plot and the two characters do sweet things for each other, for me the chemistry between the two lovers never picked up after their initial meeting.
I don't know; since I read this book after finishing Bronte's novel Shirley with all of its character and societal analysis, perhaps a modern book is automatically going to seem as if it lacks depth and is as superficial and fluffy as watching shadows on a wall. Of course this is not fair because Haddad is not a Bronte.
Anyway, apparently living in Japan is just as frosty and alienating for an African American person as I thought it would be. Nevertheless, the main character enjoys it and the authors poignantly describe some beautiful scenes and instances of Japanese culture. The way the main love interest's financial situation is introduced was refreshing. Even though the authors tried to incorporate a bit of a thriller into the plot and the two characters do sweet things for each other, for me the chemistry between the two lovers never picked up after their initial meeting.
I don't know; since I read this book after finishing Bronte's novel Shirley with all of its character and societal analysis, perhaps a modern book is automatically going to seem as if it lacks depth and is as superficial and fluffy as watching shadows on a wall. Of course this is not fair because Haddad is not a Bronte.
July 7, 2011
I really enjoyed this book almost up til the very end. Almost at the end the Ms. Haddad and her co-writer need to move the plot along and Abigail made some decisions that just didn't make much sense in my mind. But, other then that I liked the characters and the intrigue and the brief look at Japan.
January 7, 2011
"If you can't say something nice... don't say nothing at all."
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