Lani Wendt Young
Autor de Telesa: The Covenant Keeper
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1973
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Samoa
- Lugares de residencia
- Apia, Samoa
- Ocupaciones
- writer
editor
journalist
publisher
Miembros
Reseñas
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 18
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 156
- Popularidad
- #134,405
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 7
- ISBNs
- 28
This is a chick-lit, rom-com featuring big, beautiful brown girl Scarlet, by Samoan author, Lani Wendt Young. Scarlet had left Samoa years before, her family believing she had brought shame on them. She is returning now for her sister’s wedding and meets a handsome stranger Jackson on the plane. The family she returns to is full of warmth and affection but also petty squabbles, sibling rivalry and plenty of blunt advice for the plus-sized and single Scarlet.
Rom-com is not really my genre of choice but on the positive side at least this one gives some insight into Samoan family life. Scarlet also puts a different spin on romance with her detailed sweet food analogies. On the negative side I don’t really enjoy the insta-love (well more precisely lust) trope and the need to be perpetually reiterating the hero’s physical traits every time he appears. I was also sad that Scarlet felt a handsome man wouldn’t be interested in a fat girl. At least he proved her wrong on this front. There is only really one sex scene in this book and there are suggestions of previous sexual trauma in Scarlet’s teenage years, but the details are not stated. Overall this was a good story, if I’m going to read rom-com let it be Samoan! 3.5 stars for me.… (más)