Blonde Faith
by Walter Mosley
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Author: Walter MosleyEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-10
ISBN: 0316734594
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: Love Hurts
Summary: 4 Stars
"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." That's what they say. I'm not sure that Easy Rawlins would agree in this tenth installment in the series.
Easy found out in Cinnamon Kiss that Bonnie had betrayed him sexually to help get treatment to save Feather's life (his adopted daughter). Easy couldn't handle the knowledge and cut off relations with Bonnie by sending her away. As Blonde Faith opens, Easy is not so easily living without her.
Easy has a private detective job in 1967 to find and talk to a teenage runaway. He succeeds in taking her off the streets after some pretty aggressive action with her "protector." Returning home, Easy finds that eight-year-old Easter Dawn has been left without explanation by the dangerous Christmas Black. Easy decides to find Christmas to figure out what's going on. A call to Etta Mae lets Easy know that Mouse is wanted for murder by the police and that Mouse is also missing. Etta Mae asks Easy to find him.
With a loaded plate that causes heartache, Easy also learns that Bonnie is about to marry her African prince. Although Easy shouldn't care, he does. From there, Easy is an emotional basket case who lives mostly by instinct rather than by wit. That's too bad because some dangerous characters are at play.
The trail to Christmas and Mouse leads Easy across some very beautiful and accommodating women. Can they distract him from his grief?
The beauty of this book is the nuanced way that Walter Mosley captures the subtle changes in white-black relations of those days as some white people are made more suspicious and resentful in the post-riot years while others genuinely want to ignore color in favor of doing the right thing. Easy is gifted with an ability to identify the orientation of others from a mile away, and he takes full advantage of both those he can and cannot trust. But sometimes, he's still too trusting.
This book shows a different side of Easy, a man being pushed to the edge. If you want the scared superhero Easy, you may not enjoy seeing him act more like a normal, fallible person. Like many of the best novels, this one raises more questions than it answers. If you don't like choices like "the lady or the tiger," you'll be less fond of this book than I was.
I was particularly impressed by how well Mr. Mosley developed the theme of "love hurts" throughout the story and for so many of its characters.
The book's main weakness is a tendency to make many of the new characters into either angels or devils. People are a little more similar than that. As a result, this is more like reading an epic than a mystery novel.
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