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3.0 out of 5 stars
Explore an interesting and unique future Earth, April 5, 2010
This review is from: Tsunami Blue (Mass Market Paperback)
"Tsunami Blue" is a romance with fantasy elements. The story takes place in a future earth that, around 20-years ago, suffered a rather nebulous cataclysm involving a lot of Tsunamis. This devastated civilization as we know it. The leading lady, TB--, has a mystical power to understand what the ocean is saying (sometimes) and thus predict when another Tsunami is coming. She and her dog live alone on an island hiding from pirates. One morning a handsome man is washed ashore, and TB-- doesn't know whether to trust him or (is he a pirate?) kill him. Then a huge force of pirates arive to enslave her, and TB-- is forced to trust this stranger (somewhat) to save her life and keep her identity hidden from the pirates who surround them.
This is the author's first published novel. The setting is creative and interesting, and not nearly as unbelievable as it first appears...this is part of what I like about the novel, but I'd have to give away some serious spoilers to say way. Even so, you need a lot of suspension of disbelief -- technological facts are often ignored where they would conflict with the author's vision.
The main character is gutsy (which I liked) yet overly aggressive physically (which I didn't like). By this I mean she is constantly attacking people, usually cutting people with her knife, as a preemptive attack. The guys she stabs just sit there, the excuse being that TB-- was "just" establishing that she wasn't helpless. This is what bothered me about the story the most. I kept wanting someone to take away TB--'s knife and punch her in the face a few times to teach her some manners. TB--'s hostility and doubts regarding the leading man lasted most of the book, because he played a stupid "I'm not going to tell you anything" game for no apparent reason. These plot elements dragged on WAY too long.
Anyway, overall this novel was fun and enjoyable. I think you'll enjoy it more if you aren't expecting a 5-star keep-it-forever story. Suitable for a lazy afternoon in the hammock.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
great post apocalyptic high seas adventure romance, April 5, 2010
This review is from: Tsunami Blue (Mass Market Paperback)
By 2003 undersea nuclear testing has caused a series of tsunamis that has devastated coast lines and islands. Only one person seems to uncannily predict when a horrific wave is coming and where including the one that killed her parents and twin brother in Thailand over fifteen years ago. Tsunami Blue lives on a remote rock in the San Juan Islands of Washington State with her dog Mad Max and a shortwave radio. From her outpost, she sends out warnings.
An unconscious Gabriel Black washes up on her beach. Though he is the most beautiful man she has ever seen, she fears he is one of her enemy; the runner pirates who want her dead as she interferes with their looting; he has their membership 666 tattoo on him. He awakens to her mixed feelings; as Tsunami is appalled by her attraction to the newcomer, but refuses to trust Gabriel. He hides who he is from her as he has loved her for years and has worked undercover keeping the pirates away from her. However, he knows the runners are coming for her and would die to keep her safe.
This is a great post apocalyptic high seas adventure romance that grips the audience from the moment Tsunami meets Gabriel on her beach. Fast-paced, the story line is refreshed by the unique heroine and the man who has loved her from afar, but forced to break cover to insure no harm comes to the woman he cherishes and admires. Gayle Anne Williams provides a terrific unique romantic suspense thriller.
Harriet Klausner
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Compelling reading!, April 16, 2010
This review is from: Tsunami Blue (Mass Market Paperback)
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A first person, mile-a-minute adventure with chills, kills, and thrills, Tsunami Blue grabs the reader and doesn't let go until the very last word and even then it lingers in the mind along with all the "what if's" that creep in.
Reared among a barbaric bunch of men with cruelty all around her, Tsunami Blue learned to survive at all cost. Her Uncle Seamus had taken her when her parents were killed. He taught her how to kill or be killed, yet she had kept a part of her humanity that others seemed to have lost.
At her uncle's death, Blue's isolation deepens, but the sea whispers to her. She knows when the big monster waves are coming and tries to warn anyone who might be out there. Many who hear her call her a witch and worse. She knows many think of her as a freak.
Max, her huge dog companion, plays a major role, even though he is not notably present much of the time.
Gabriel Black, Blue's dark angel that she saves by breathing her own life breath into his unconscious body, proves to be a mystery of a man that is beautiful as an angel to her even though he wears the tattoo of a Runner. Their relationship is an enigma that enthralls. As they sail their way through constant danger, a terrifying, gripping story keeps the reader turning pages with bated breath.
Gayle Ann Williams creates a world that stems from enough reality to lure the reader in. Her graphic descriptions alert all the senses and assail them relentlessly. The cold, the wet, the depravity, the greed, the evil make the blood run cold, yet the humor that bubbles up in Blue's thoughts and expressions show a side of her that is resilient to horrors she sees and endures and that she even metes out at times.
The secondary characters range from killers and cannibals to innocent children that love life. The descriptions make the reader wonder if good can ever overcome such evil that seems to run rampant without anything to bring it to account.
Tsunami Blue fascinates. It teems with danger and evil, but amid all the suffering, LOVE that spans almost two decades never gives up. This is a love story and a setting long to be remembered.
Compelling reading!
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