All Shook Up edition by JM Snyder Literature Fiction eBooks
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The year is 1883. Eduard van De Lier is a Dutchman overseeing a spice plantation on the island of Java, in the South Pacific. His obsessive attraction to dark-skinned men is just one of his many secrets. His wife Marien knows of his indiscretions, but as she's content with their Colonial lifestyle, she stays silent.
Until a former lover of Eduard's shows up in their parlor with thoughts of blackmail.
Reza was a crewman on the ship that brought the van De Liers to Java. During the passage, Eduard spent many a night in the younger man's arms. Two years have passed, and the last person Eduard expects to find in his drawing room is Reza, a letter in hand that could destroy the life he and Marien lead.
Seeing him again ignites Eduard's lust for his first dark lover. He hopes to retrieve the letter, either through seduction or subterfuge, and the longer Reza eludes him, the more his desire grows. But they're on shaky ground, and before things can heat up between them, their world explodes -- literally -- when the unstable island of Krakatoa erupts.
All Shook Up edition by JM Snyder Literature Fiction eBooks
Loved it, short, intense and captivating. Really what more could I ask for except maybe more Edward & Reza. I loved this book from the start, its different and fresh, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I recommended it!Product details
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All Shook Up edition by JM Snyder Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Eduard van De Lier has many secrets that only his wife, in name only, shares with him, or so he thought. Living on his spice plantation on the island of Java Eduard's taste in men, dark skinned men in particular, is very well sated. When an old lover shows up, the life Eduard careful crafted with his wife Marien maybe destroyed. Face to face with Reza, a lover who satisfied him like no other during his long voyage to Java, Eduard tries to use that seduction to disarm Reza of the evidence that could destroy him. Eduard's plan backfires when his own desire for Reza burns out of control.
All Shook Up is different and full of surprises. Nothing is as it appeared on the surface. Eduard and his wife Marien are very conniving, or opportunistic, depending on how you chose to view them. They thought they had a perfect life, Eduard with his men and Marien with her money, but Reza threw a monkey wrench into their plans. Although I had my suspicions about certain things in this story, I was still surprised when they were confirmed. I was happy with the ending, and the fact that things worked out so that everyone got what they wanted. All Shook Up is a good and interesting read.
Reviewed by Ley
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Volcanic eruptions tend to happen in bed in romances - JM Snyder has turned the tables slightly. All Shook Up has eruptions both in bed and out, because the greatest volcanic action of modern times blows Eduard and Reza around. Disaster brings out the best and worst in people, so Krakatoa would show what a man is really made of.
Unfortunately, Eduard van De Lier has a lot of reprehensible qualities even before the ground starts shaking. He's fine with lying, stealing, and laziness. Thoughts beyond keeping his comforts intact and his next seduction barely enter his head. He's managed to insinuate himself and his wife, Marien, into wealth and society, and while Marien works tirelessly to keep them in the good times, Eduard's more interested in finding a pliable servant. For one heart-stopping moment, the initial sex scene demonstrating this looked like it would turn into a rape.
When Reza turns up in the drawing room, Eduard at first doesn't recognize him, and then immediately assumes the worst, whether it's his greatest fear or because that's what he'd do in Reza's place is hard to say. Being completely led by his small head, Eduard decides that another seduction will clear all the troubles away, but wily Reza doesn't give in quickly a second time.
Formerly crew on the ship that brought the van De Liers to Java, Reza remains a mystery; he speaks little and withdraws strategically. Somehow he transforms from a handy bedmate on shipboard to the great love of Eduard's life, apparently for being dark-skinned, well hung, calm in a crisis, and liking the unlikeable. Equally mysterious is what he sees in Eduard, aside from a bottom who can accommodate his enormous equipment. The line
"the thick c*** whose base Eduard could barely encircle with both hands"
left me holding my coffee cup that way and staring in pained disbelief.
Disaster actually does bring out the best in Eduard in his case, hiding in the one firm sanctuary available and failing to assist a frantic mother in finding her child is an improvement on his previous history of looting the bodies. It just doesn't make me like him any better.
The eruption of the volcano shone, watching Reza and Eduard fight their way through ashfall and survive a tsunami were the best parts of the story for me. If anything, Ms. Snyder downplayed the horror of what happened, and it was still tense, dangerous, and gripping. Eduard still managed to fall asleep for a while during it.
A seriously flawed character needs some kind of redemption. Eduard does do something honorable at the end regarding Marien, but it's very little and so late as to not make much difference. They've reached their accommodations as a couple, and now one more lie makes it all better. That Eduard is married but pursues other partners wasn't a problem for me, Marien was aware from the start that she was a beard, and had her own reasons for accepting Eduard. She was the most sympathetic person in the book.
Unfortunately, the wonderful backdrop of the Krakatoa eruption was wasted on characters whose survival I couldn't particularly care about; Reza remained unknowable and Eduard was only too exposed. All Shook Up did not move me much.
Loved it, short, intense and captivating. Really what more could I ask for except maybe more Edward & Reza. I loved this book from the start, its different and fresh, I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I recommended it!
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