From Publishers Weekly
Cassandra Westbrook and Thomas Brown Wolf have nothing and everything in common. She's blond-on-pale; he's African-American, Lakota Sioux and "a little bit white." She's a rich widow with an elegant home, vibrant social life and successful Minneapolis art gallery; he's a loner who seems to live through the dark thoughts and derring-do of the characters in his comics and graphic novels. From the moment they meet at Sotheby's in Chicago, as the two high bidders for a folio of Native American ledger drawings, it's a dance of attraction and suspicion. Fans of Eagle's hardcover debut, The Night Remembers, will have an advantage when it comes to untangling the hero's many personas: he's Thomas Warrior, Tommy T. or Tom, depending on who's in the room. But first-time readers will have the advantage when it comes to edge-of-the-seat suspense involving Thomas's felon brother, Victor. And all will enjoy the nuanced portraits of Cassandra's adolescent nephew, Aaron, an artist and loner, whose kidnapping drives the drama. Eagle, a white woman married to a Lakota Sioux, enriches the romance genre with her unforced, unaffected multiculturalism. No doctrine, no rainbow parades here-just an appreciation for all that is human. Eagle's prose may occasionally be more cotton than silk, but her scene setting is convincing and her pacing flawless.
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In this sequel to
The Night Remembers (1997), Eagle blends Native American lore with lusty romance while lacing the plot with suspense. Part African American, part Lakota Sioux, teenager Tommy T. has grown into handsome, successful 30-year-old graphic novelist Thomas Warrior, who lives a fairly solitary existence, talking with his creations Victory and her masculine alter ego, Victor. Then he spots beautiful, wealthy widow Cassandra Westbrook when they bid on the same Native American ledger drawings at an auction, and he is soon persuaded by his adoptive mother, Angela, to mentor Cassandra's talented but misfit nephew, Aaron. There's little doubt from the start about where the Thomas-Cassandra relationship will lead, at least until the novel turns darker when Victor seems to take human form to carry out his creator's wishes, Aaron goes missing, and the issue of trust emerges. Eagle explores problematic family relationships and gives a nod to some contemporary social issues, but she writes primarily to entertain, an aim she achieves here.
Michele LeberCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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