Hibiscus Mask fiction books

Rich Shapero s novels dare readers with giant metaphors magnificent obsessions and potent ideas His casts of idealistic lovers laboring miners and rebellious artists all rate ideas as paramount important than life itself They traverse wild landscapes and visionary realms imagining gods who in turn imagine them Like the seekers themselves readers grapple with revealing truths about human potential All of his titles Beneath Caaqis Wings Dissolve Island Fruit Remedy Balcony of Fog Rin Tongue and Dorner Arms from the Sea The Hope We Seek Too Far and Wild Animus are available in hardcover and as ebooks They also combine music visual art animation and video in the TooFar Media app Shapero spins provocative stories for Rich Shapero s novels dare readers with giant metaphors magnificent obsessions and potent ideas His casts of idealistic lovers laboring miners and rebellious artists all rate ideas as paramount important than life itself They traverse wild landscapes and visionary realms imagining gods who in turn imagine them Like the seekers themselves readers grapple with revealing truths about human potential All of his titles Beneath Caaqi s Wings Dissolve Island Fruit Remedy Balcony of Fog Rin Tongue and Dorner Arms from the Sea The Hope We Seek Too Far and Wild Animus are available in hardcover and as ebooks They also combine music visual art animation and video in the TooFar Media app Shapero spins provocative stories for the eyes ears and imagination site_link What does it take to show our true self to the one we love Kell is an American botanist working in Malaysia He meets the engaging and alluring Nitti and is instantly smitten but getting to know her is anything but straightforward Open and childlike one moment guarded and invulnerable the next she ducks and vacillates and keeps Kell guessing why Nitti s mother lies paralyzed in a far corner of their home tended by a sinister housekeeper who exerts a mystifying control over Nitti and her father Still Kell believes he s found the woman of his dreams and he perseveres And Nitti seems to encourage him leading him to a secret jungle sanctuary then deeper to the black waters of a swamp she calls Keributan where a monstrous creature lurks With lushly drawn metaphor and unflinching candor and empathy Hibiscus Mask offers a gripping psychological mystery about the preconditions for love and the tragic cost of hidden identity Hibiscus MaskI found this book to be pretty interesting and easily read it in a few sittings English sorry go self published authors but it s a story about a white dude who falls in love with a se asian prostitute and i just could not i was trying then on p 19 he wrote your father new plants if you can t even care enough to spell things correctly i can t care enough to read it English I was so excited to receive this book from a Goodreads contest The book starts out to be interesting Kell is an American working in Malaysia he falls for a beautiful Asian Girl Nitti However after reading less than half the book it was so difficult to finally finish it English I got this book free at an arts festival FWIW The book jacket brags about giant metaphors which I did not expect to be a positive attribute and I was proven correct. Hibiscus Mask literature definition The language of the metaphors is interesting and flowery sometimes literally because the sex between characters always devolves into fantastical imaginations of jungle creatures grinding on each other some of which are flowers. Hibiscus Mask fiction vs The language fits squarely into fantastical realism and the themes fit somewhere between light erotica and chick lit for nerdy academic men The plot is fairly predictable and trope filled The White Male American Savior tries to save The Girl The Girl is in a strange land The Girl is an outcast The Girl is poor The Girl turned to prostitution The Girl s mother is abusive The Girl was traumatized The Girl still has emotional issues caused by the trauma reverts to childish states becomes catatonic on occasion and GASP by far the worst thing is that she doesn t let the White Savior in to her emotions or whatever And she s really good at sex. Book Hibiscus mask mandate So he has to fix her all of it because he wants her loves her and figures he can probably do that because he hasn t really failed at much in his life So he tries and tries to fix her slowly realizing that his relationship with The Girl that he PAID MONEY FOR a boyfriend arrangement might not be everything he thinks it is both from her side and his. Hibiscus maskje It s funny how he dives head first into resolving her biggest trauma by starting a role playing visualization session without even asking her first and persisting despite her protests because she should trust him He s geneticist not a therapist. Hibiscus Mask booklet One of the interesting aspects of this book from my personal perspective is because I have read so much about emotions and communication in relationships recently it was striking that the main character believed he could see the connection and emotions between him and The Girl floating in the air and changing in real time On many occasions the White Savior would describe a chasm opened between us or distance between us closed suddenly or her mask was on again but was thinner this time all of these are paraphrased but accurate And all of this without a word being spoken or other non verbal communication conveying actual ideas This is a toxic belief No one can see another person s emotions in front of them and believing that you can often leads to trampling the other person s ACTUAL emotions invalidating them Just ask her how she s feeling dude maybe you ll learn something. Hibiscus masklike But in any case two stars because I enjoyed reading this book for how peculiar it is It s like I m reading the fever fantasies of a lonely botanist in southeast Asia I am unfamiliar with that mindset and so experiencing the metaphors of the deepest desires of this particular species of White American Savior was entertaining Random notes The word knob appears a surprising number of times in this book I m not sure if sex between frogs is supposed to be sexy If you re not a botanist a lot of the minor metaphors similes won t mean anything to you The girl s father dies at an EXTREMELY convenient time At first I didn t like the ending but in hindsight it s probably as good and realistic as any other I wouldn t date either main character in this book They are interesting enough and I would totally hang out with them but there were big time red flags by date 2 and that s when I d either friend zone or peace out on both of them English This book contained beautiful imagery and descriptions but it was NOT for me I have to give it a 1 star rating for my records because I didn t care for it at all but I m sure the book will find the right audience It s just not me English