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During the record-smashing hurricane season of 2005, a deadly game of cat and mouse unfolds and a stormy love affair is complicated by polarized politics, high-strung Southern families, a full-on media circus, and the worst disaster management goat screw in US history.
As Hurricane Katrina howls toward the ill-prepared city of New Orleans, Dr. Corbin Thibodeaux, a Gulf Coast climatologist and storm risk specialist, preaches the gospel of evacuation, weighed down by the fresh public memory of a spectacularly false alarm a year earlier. Meanwhile, Shay Hoovestahl, a puff piece reporter for the local news, stumbles on the story of a con artist who uses storm-related chaos as cover for identity theft and murder. Laying a trap to expose the killer, Shay drags Corbin into her agenda, which goes horribly awry as the city's infrastructure crumbles.
The Hurricane Lover is a fast-paced tale of two cities, two families, and two desperate people seeking shelter from the storm.
The author, a NYT bestselling ghostwriter living on the Gulf Coast, writes knowingly about the dramatic megastorms, weaving in authentic meteorology and riveting transcripts of actual emails sent and received by FEMA director Michael Brown (later released through the Freedom of Information Act.)
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FROM TRISKELE BOOK BLOG
"The Hurricane Lover is the story of two former lovers from polar ends of the deep political divide who collide – sexually, emotionally and in every other way – as Hurricane Katrina rolls over New Orleans and a predatory serial killer called Queen Mab takes advantage the ensuing chaos.
Corbin is a meteorologist, one of the best hurricane forecasters around – a liberal, a Democrat and an alcoholic. Shay is a small-time TV presenter, fobbed off with stories about ice cream and Ziploc bags – a former beauty queen and daughter of a wealthy and influential Republican. He is on the trail of Katrina and she is on the trail of Queen Mab.
I have never been to Louisiana or to Texas (where part of the action takes place), nor have I ever lived through a hurricane. But there is a filmic quality to the writing that means that the book played out in my mind in a series of vivid images. Rodgers has an ear, too, for the rich language of the Louisiana colourful, gutsy and laced with Old French.
Katrina, of course, provides a gift of a setting for any thriller. No one reading it can doubt that the jeopardy of the hurricane is real – no need here for writerly exaggeration. And Queen Mab is a frighteningly plausible killer – a modern take on an old nightmare, using the Internet to lure her victims into traps she baits with their own lusts.
Shay and Corbin have a chemistry that flies off the page. They are an impossible pairing, striking sparks off each other at every encounter, yet you find yourself rooting for them to find a way past their differences and be together, because they are also perfect for each other.
The book has an undoubted political edge. It’s hard to miss the deep underlying anger at the woefully inadequate response to the hurricane. It comes through in Corbin’s railing against head-in-the-sand attitude of the authorities, and also in the verbatim reproduction, as chapter headings, of published emails to and from the Head of FEMA – the organisation charged with preparing for and coping with the disaster. Yet Rodgers avoids polemic by giving the ‘opposition’ their own rounded, sympathetic characters.
This is a powerful book that deserves to be read both for the yarn it spins and for the real-life story it uncovers.
Highly Recommended."
The Hurricane Lover a novel edition by Joni Rodgers Literature Fiction eBooks
I have mixed emotions about this book. I thought it was suspenseful for sure but I didn't really care for the two main characters at all. I was very disappointed that it ended without an in depth explanation of who MAB was. It also seems pretty apparent what the author's political beliefs are. Just like the media back after Katrina, everything that went wrong was blamed on Bush/Brown (Republicans). Governor Kathleeen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin, who is now a convicted criminal, (both Democrats) are barely mentioned in the book and didn't get blamed for anything! I live in FL. Hurricane preparedness info, evacuation routes, establishment of shelters, information on what to bring to a shelter (3 days of water, food and bedding) are the responsibility of the local government. I am sure it is the same in Louisiana. Did the people of New Orleans get any info whatsover? Was any preparation done in advance? I am very sure that if a hurricane of Katrina's scope hit FL and we had a Democrat for president and a governor and local government reps who were Republicans, the media would blame the governor and local government , not the president. The media is biased. So is this author. So while, the book is interesting, it kind of bugged me.Product details
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The Hurricane Lover a novel edition by Joni Rodgers Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
While some of us were sitting high and dry watching the coverage of Katrina on the wide screens, Shay and Corbin (and Ms.Rodgers) were wading through the fetid brackish sewage in what was left of "Nawlins;" Rodgers as a Red Cross volunteer, Shay and Corbin as the well-drawn main characters in Ms. Rodgers's entertaining retrospective of Katrina followed closely by Hurricane Rita.
The Hurricane Lover is a murder mystery, a thriller, and an exposé of "Heck of a job Brownie," Halliburton, Nagin, Dubya, Fugate, FEMA, Homeland Security and all the others who failed us as taxpayers and left the drowning residents of Louisiana gasping for breath and dying on their roof tops. From August 26 through September 27 of 2005, we follow an ensemble cast of rich and poor, babies to Nammas, including the grand old trees dripping with Spanish moss, the brocade sofas in the parlors, the sculptures, the art collections, almost all submerged by the power of that storm.
The scenes are terrifying
"...she lost her footing and stumbled backward, the fetid current closing in up to her neck. Flailing against an unknowable snarl of God knows what--spider legs, cypress roots, rats, shrunken heads, voodoo hair--she fought for her feet, gasping, gagging, slapping at the twigs and piano wires and unidentified, terrifying shit that tangled in her ponytail and clothes. Trapped between the woman's backpack and a tree branch, she went down again, grinding her knees against a submerged row of pointed pavers that lined the sidewalk..." Just remember no lights, no potable water, no dry beds, no privacy, no food, no toilets for days on end, even for those "lucky" enough to get to the Superdome.
The plots and subplots are complex. The villains (and there is at least one) are ruthless. And there are surprise twists and turns. Who was that caller near the end who identified himself as "Halliburton?" But I must say, the Steel Magnolias steal all the scenes."Mommi and her church ladies were doing pedicures for women at the Astrodome." The men have their bourbon and Glenfiddich and mathematical models, but are they really predictive? And what about a woman's predictive model? You'll find out.
Meanwhile, the verses of a Cajun lullaby, like the assurances of FEMA (not), initially lulled us into thinking FEMA would take care of our fellow countrymen and women. "C'est la petite poule blanche, qui a pondu dans la branche, un petit coco pour mon bébé faire dodo ..." (A little white hen laid in the branch a little egg So my baby could sleep) Now we know we are all on our own, should disaster strike, except for the kindness of the Red Cross, our local charities, and the random act of kindness of which Shay and Corbin found themselves capable.
Shay of the Houston Hoovestahls and the Dallas McKecknies had a dream of getting a really gritty hard news story to impress her boss and get a serious job at the television station. Dr. Corbin,of the Louisiana Thibodeaux family, would rather be correct than sorry. The two managed to achieve détente as well as copious "engagements", despite the reality that she's from a devout Republican family (in the way of Southern Baptists, perhaps) and he a "goddang" liberal who "preached the gospel of evacuation. Preached it like a Baptist." "Hurricane Lover" is just one of the delightful double-entendres sprinkled throughout the book, some en Francais, some in English.We get a revealing peek at the Deep South in 2005. Ms. Rodgers is a skillful, very humorous and powerful writer and all the other characters Char and Robert, Mickey, Guy, Bonnie, Millie, Watts, Sykes and Louisa live on her pages. My advice is to buy and read this book!
The Hurricane Lover is a great read. Every chapter brings a new twist to a story that won't let you lay it down. Watching the flood on TV when the levees broke in New Orleans was bad, but reading about Shay Hoovestahl trying to survive in it was worse. Descriptions of her swim in the putrid water filled with with snakes, rats and other dead bodies left nothing to the imagination. I could almost feel the oil slick and smell death as she fought for her life. The technical descriptions of Katrina and other storms will give storm chasers new ways to describe what they are seeing. Shay and Corbin the storm chaser, slowly worked out details of the intricate plan for murder and identity theft developed by the computer wise master criminal. It led them to one final life or death battle in which one or both of them could die in the backwash of the hurricane flood water. This book adds real heat to the Fire and looks good on my original as well. One more great book told by a master story teller. Joni Rodgers has outdone herself in this topical thriller.
I have mixed emotions about this book. I thought it was suspenseful for sure but I didn't really care for the two main characters at all. I was very disappointed that it ended without an in depth explanation of who MAB was. It also seems pretty apparent what the author's political beliefs are. Just like the media back after Katrina, everything that went wrong was blamed on Bush/Brown (Republicans). Governor Kathleeen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin, who is now a convicted criminal, (both Democrats) are barely mentioned in the book and didn't get blamed for anything! I live in FL. Hurricane preparedness info, evacuation routes, establishment of shelters, information on what to bring to a shelter (3 days of water, food and bedding) are the responsibility of the local government. I am sure it is the same in Louisiana. Did the people of New Orleans get any info whatsover? Was any preparation done in advance? I am very sure that if a hurricane of Katrina's scope hit FL and we had a Democrat for president and a governor and local government reps who were Republicans, the media would blame the governor and local government , not the president. The media is biased. So is this author. So while, the book is interesting, it kind of bugged me.
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