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Hydrangeas on the Lanai Kindle Edition
Revised 2021
Alexis's childhood home is filled with secrets.
When Alexis's parents and husband mysteriously die, she finds sadness and depression running rampant in her life. A simple invitation to Parsons Manor brings her exciting feelings and memories. Though she questions the intent, she readily accepts and is whisked away to her childhood home filled with secrets. Wandering the halls and yards of Parsons Manor, she cannot escape the feeling someone is watching her. Afraid no one will believe her, she doesn’t tell of her paranoia.
After a member of the kitchen staff plummets to her death from the third-floor balcony, Gabe Parsons becomes worried, but he acts as though nothing is out of the ordinary. But when someone brutally murders the downstairs maid and abducts Alexis for the second time, he knows he must act before the prophesized curse comes to fruition, changing everything about their lives.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateMarch 7, 2015
- Reading age15 - 18 years
- File size2.2 MB
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- ASIN : B00UEVDBKQ
- Publisher : Charles W. Jones
- Accessibility : Learn more
- Publication date : March 7, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 2.2 MB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 289 pages
- ISBN-13 : 978-1311477972
- Page Flip : Enabled
- Reading age : 15 - 18 years
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About the author

I grew up in a small town of five hundred people in Wyoming that everyone always pronounces wrong or spells incorrectly, Shoshoni (show show knee); I swear it’s a real place. My first novel, Dreamwalker: The Second Plain, is LGBTQ+ as are HOME and Daughter of Illusion. My other books include the Circus Tarot Trilogy (it’s Clowns and Tarot, what’s not to love), Hunger, Hydrangeas on the Lanai and Darkness is Coming. And last, but not least, I have two anthology collections, An Unnamed Acquaintance and Liaisons Macabre. Oh, yeah, I currently live with my husband of twenty-one years in Colorado with our three cats, ten crested geckos, and one saltwater fish tank.
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- Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2017Pros: I have to say that a few pages into the book I laughed out loud. This author had the audacity or cunning to mention the title of the book the heroine was reading, and by coincidence or design, it was one of his other books. Might be a unique form of marketing.
My feelings when I finished this book was total confusion. Having said that, without the last chapter the story kept me turning the pages because everything was so twisted. If I explain my confusion, I will give away too much. My recommendation, if you like stories that twist and turn and keep you frowning, wishing you could talk to the author, then this is for you.
Cons: Did this author sat with his Thesaurus nearby? Sentence structure and odd use of words were quite jarring at times.
Random examples: "stitching her bravery together" "storm would circumference the house" In other words, the book could use editing.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2018A long and confusing story that needs editing. I did not always understand what was going on with each character and it was not until the last chapter that it all began to make a little sense.
I have read three other books by Mr. Jones, which I enjoyed.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020Hydrangeas on the Lanai is not an easy read! It takes you through absurd alleys of mystery, fantasy and suspense, with special effects borrowed from nature to create an aura for an enigmatic story that is set around a curse on Parsons Manor. It unleashes with the arrival of Alexis whose husband has been killed under mysterious circumstances and she is suffering from depression. Nothing seems to make sense and each character seems to be weird and skewed.
It is hard to believe that Gabe and Alexis were childhood friends, as they had miles between them – undisclosed secrets, unexpressed emotions and lying clearly shows that wedge. There are stories within stories and you have to be attentive all the time as Jones drifts into past and gets back into present without any warning. He is also cryptic and abrupt at places to keep the truth under wraps. Towards the end it turns grotesque and unbelievable but then suddenly reverts to realism. No truth could be traced till the last chapter, as he keeps the ultimate shocker for the last moment.
Jones has used the elements of nature most effectively to build the right atmosphere – “explosion in the sky,” claps of thunder, shadows in the forest, the rustle in the plants, “the moan echoed through the house,” deep baritone vibrated the floor, “the chandelier shimmied” – are some of the expressions that shine. There are some editing issues but the theme in the book has been handled proficiently. If you like blind and dark lanes, this could be the book for you. The title is as misleading as the story.