Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781852426286
Format: Special Edition
ISBN number: 1852426284
Label: Serpent's Tail
Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: October 01, 1999
Publishing house: Serpent's Tail
Sale Popularity Level: 1622716
Studio: Serpent's Tail
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Attractive and perverse, Ramona Romano looks for love in the wrong places...particularly among the scuba divers and weightlifters on Florida's coast. Her attraction toward a dark and dangerous diver named Enzo is sure to get her into trouble, but Ramona's drawn to him like a fish on a line. Iguana Love is first-rate noir fiction from a writer who's willing to take chances.
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Ramona Romano is a young and beautiful Miami nurse whom you might, were you charitable, call 'terminally insatiable.' You might otherwise call her cheap, horny, cheesy, sleazy, dopey, and two other dwarves too explicit to mention. Well-built scuba-diving men, on the other hand, call her an answer to their prayers, and often. Her husband Gary has been shown the door. In his place is Ignatz, Ramona's freshly caught, five-foot iguana, and Enzo, a freshly shucked nightmare on the half shell. I went into the bathroom and took my clothes off and crouched in the corner between the toilet and the tub. I curled over with my arms clasped around my knees, my face against my thighs, the toilet bowl wedged into my side, trying to chill myself, to change into a rational woman. Gary would come back with a word. If only I could accept normal married life, make it my goal to have a good marriage, help each other. I stayed there a long time, willing my muscles to atrophy. I tried to give up all my wild notions, but it didn't work. I had seawater on the brain. Divers to explore. Enzo. Flowing freedom. Without a lobotomy, I couldn't change.
Hey, Ramona: If Gary's Door Number 1, Enzo's Door Number 2, and the lobotomy's behind the curtain, take the curtain. But no--it's Enzo, and an inexorable slide into a special level of Miami hell tumescent with sexual deviates, sadistic drug runners, steroid-popping body builders--Ramona chief among them--and, finally, murderers.
It's porn noir. It's a woman's unwise (if not unwholesome) quest for marginally attainable lust and unattainable freedom through a man who's of our species by definition only. It's Miami-hot pulp friction. Vicki Hendricks's Iguana Love is all of that, and it's only her second novel (after 1995's Miami Purity). And beyond all of that, and most importantly, it's very well-written. --Michael Hudson
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Great title - bad book. Poorly developed characters and a plot that does not take you anywhere.
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I found Iguana Love to be an enjoyable book. Ms. Hendricks is building a solid reputation as a writer with a unique voice. I recommend that any reader searching for fresh material and a fresh approach to literary subject matter Iguana Love.
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Fun, fun, mystery noir style of story with the bang of a loaded speargun. The bonus is that it is a story that also makes you think and that you will carry with you even after the story has surfaced.
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I was very first tipped off to Vicki Hendricks' writing in Naked Came the Manatee, a good collaborative effort. This book is also quite good.
In Iguana Love, we are introduced to Ramona Romano, a very unique woman who easily speaks and acts her mind. Separated from her husband, she tries to invigorate her life with scuba diving and bodybuilding. In her quest of sleeping with many men, she falls for a seedy character named Enzo, who happens to be her diving instructor. He leads her down a negative path until we reach a very suprising ending that will knock you out of your socks.
This book is very erotic, especially as we take a ride with Ramona on her wild romp and conquerings. The writing is graphic, raw, and very straightforward. Hendricks holds nothing back with her protagonist. Throw in the Miami background, and you've got a fairly hot novel.
Although some of the characters were somewhat one-dimensional, they all seemed to be nicely developed, and the plot was well drawn out. This was a quick read, and one that was quite enjoyable, if not merely for the shocking ending, not to mention the wonderful twists and turns. Inguana Love is a nice, yet far from wholesome, adventure.
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I am embarassed to admit I took this book out of the library. Although I didn't finish it, I can honestly advise you - skip this book! I am by no means a prude, but this is repulsive! It is complete trash. One-dimensional characters and no particular story of interest, this manages to be boring and seedy at the same time. If I wrote this book I'd be trying to join the Federal Witness Protection Program.
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