Black Sands: Aloha Reef Series, Book 2
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Coble scores a hit again!!!!!
16 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
If you've never read a Colleen Coble novel, click on the BUY NOW button IMMEDIATELY. If you love suspense with clever twists and turns, a romance that will warm your heart, and a storyline that leaves you filled with hope and promise, you won't be disappointed!
Black Sands, the second book in the Aloha series, blew me away! While in a series, Black Sands is easily a stand-alone novel. Set in Hawaii, Coble weaves the island culture and scenery into the story so masterfully that you can almost feel the ocean breeze kissing your face! With a strong heroine and an even stronger hero, you can't help but fall in love with these characters--become emotionally involved in the drama they face--and root them on to not only find the heroine's missing sister, rediscover the love they are destined to share, but also to be refilled with their faith.
This book is one of the best I've read in a long time! Get it. Read it. Devour the pages. It's a must-read!
For more of my personal reviews, visit my website at (...)
Black Sands, the second book in the Aloha series, blew me away! While in a series, Black Sands is easily a stand-alone novel. Set in Hawaii, Coble weaves the island culture and scenery into the story so masterfully that you can almost feel the ocean breeze kissing your face! With a strong heroine and an even stronger hero, you can't help but fall in love with these characters--become emotionally involved in the drama they face--and root them on to not only find the heroine's missing sister, rediscover the love they are destined to share, but also to be refilled with their faith.
This book is one of the best I've read in a long time! Get it. Read it. Devour the pages. It's a must-read!
For more of my personal reviews, visit my website at (...)
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Must read!
12 May 2006
Format:Paperback
I am a loyal true-blue fan of Colleen Coble. She didn't disappoint me with Black Sands. Wonderful story, beautifully crafted with nail-biting tension. The setting was wonderful, I felt like I was there. The characters were so wonderfully flawed and real. The plot kept you guessing and everything they tried to do only compounded matters like the lava building up under the islands. I loved Mano and Annie, as they stumbled through the mystery and their growing attraction to one another. I loved Wilson. I have to get me a mongoose now, :0). The secondary characters were also well done, I closed the book feeling like I had made a whole bunch of new friends. (I also stayed up until 2:00am to finish it because I couldn't bear not knowing what happened.)
The book is not preachy, but it has definate take away value. At least it did for me. I know Colleen only wants to do God's will. I want her to know that she touched me with her work.
And now I can quit hiding it and let my son have it to read. (I think my hubby read it during the times I didn't have it clutched in my hands.) Can't wait for Dangerous Depths.
The book is not preachy, but it has definate take away value. At least it did for me. I know Colleen only wants to do God's will. I want her to know that she touched me with her work.
And now I can quit hiding it and let my son have it to read. (I think my hubby read it during the times I didn't have it clutched in my hands.) Can't wait for Dangerous Depths.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
a NEW mystery book twist: MURDER/RESURRECTION/MURDER
18 Jun 2009
Format:Paperback
It is hard to not tell you to forget the first book in this "Aloha Reef" series by famous Christian-Murder-Romance-Mystery writer Colleen Coble. I really do recommend the first book, also 5 stars of mystery reading. See my review. This second book, also taking place in Hawaii, is related, and carries enough characters onward, that the books in the "Aloha Reef Series" should be read in order. But as a last resort, "BLACK SANDS" could be read as a stand-alone novel. It's not recommended, but it is that good.
Book one, "Distant Echoes", gave readers a family and Hawaii location to begin to love. To smell the ocean breezes. To taste the local treats. When some book-one characters return on another island, with new suspense and intrigue, well, it's like a reunion. Of course there is new Aloha 'family' introduced in "Black Sands." Coble knows how to pull the emotional strings of readers and get you up close to the action, like volcanic activity, dolphin swimming, romantic beach activity, and yes even murder.
But "Black Sands" reaches into the possibility of a return from the dead. Coble's books do have a degree of Christian character influence; not preachy, but sinners struggling with life and needing a little of God's help to meet the end of a day. Or meet the return of the dead. Is a resurrection possible? It happened in the Bible. Expect anything and everything in Colleen Coble's mysteries--well, except the expected. She keeps readers guessing till the end. But isn't that why we buy them?
An excellent murder mystery. A new approach and twist, but the same high quality blend of suspense, romance, detailed settings, Christian influence, and READING ENJOYMENT.
Like me, you might as well buy the whole series because Colleen Coble's books are always checked out at the library. Do an Amazon search for her other books as well. Read my review on her Amish murder mystery, "Anathema".
Buy and enjoy and Aloha.
Book one, "Distant Echoes", gave readers a family and Hawaii location to begin to love. To smell the ocean breezes. To taste the local treats. When some book-one characters return on another island, with new suspense and intrigue, well, it's like a reunion. Of course there is new Aloha 'family' introduced in "Black Sands." Coble knows how to pull the emotional strings of readers and get you up close to the action, like volcanic activity, dolphin swimming, romantic beach activity, and yes even murder.
But "Black Sands" reaches into the possibility of a return from the dead. Coble's books do have a degree of Christian character influence; not preachy, but sinners struggling with life and needing a little of God's help to meet the end of a day. Or meet the return of the dead. Is a resurrection possible? It happened in the Bible. Expect anything and everything in Colleen Coble's mysteries--well, except the expected. She keeps readers guessing till the end. But isn't that why we buy them?
An excellent murder mystery. A new approach and twist, but the same high quality blend of suspense, romance, detailed settings, Christian influence, and READING ENJOYMENT.
Like me, you might as well buy the whole series because Colleen Coble's books are always checked out at the library. Do an Amazon search for her other books as well. Read my review on her Amish murder mystery, "Anathema".
Buy and enjoy and Aloha.
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