Book Review at Monkey Monster Thoughts

Thank you to Pili Nathaniel at Monkey Monster Thoughts for reviewing After Dawn on her blog! Here's a small snippet:

This modern book is drenched in the dream and spirit world of Hawaii. Taft weaves her love story into the spirit of this tale in more ways than one. The Hawaiian mindset can be a duality... The people struggle with what it means to be Hawaiian. They struggle with not fully knowing their own culture because of being down-trodden and our own self-neglect that started a few hundred years before this book ever came to be. It is only within the last few decades... since the late Seventies maybe... that a cultural revolution has been slowly unfurling. Hawaiians can now learn their language in school - since most families have long lost the ability. Hawaiians can seek ways to immerse and fully understand what it means to be Hawaiian in this modern world. Taft explores these topics almost from the beginning of her book. There is an undercurrent of something lost - then found - throughout her story.....

For the full review, visit her blog at: http://monkeymonsterthoughts.blogspot.com/2015/01/tuesday-reviewsday-after-dawn-by.html