Deceptive Calm
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Deceptive Calm
Buy Now for $27.99
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Narrated by:
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Tanya Reuter
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By:
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Patricia Skipper
About this listen
Against the turbulent backdrop of declared martial law in South Carolina, a stunning light-skinned beauty, Vanessa, lives in a Catholic orphanage for Blacks. After a series of racial traumas, Vanessa obtains the birth certificate of a deceased white baby and uses this document to assume the child's identity. She moves to California and enrolls at UC Berkeley under her newly acquired name.
Vanessa marries into one of California's wealthiest families. Her charmed life abruptly ends eighteen months after the birth of her first child who is diagnosed with sickle cell trait. Discovering that the woman he married is Black, as is his toddler son, Vanessa's ruthless husband plots his revenge but they both survive. The police investigation that follows seems pretty clear-cut until a curious, young detective uncovers some clues to her private life where nothing is as it appears. The aftermath of the discovery brings down a pillar of San Francisco society.
©2023 Patricia Skipper (P)2024 Patricia SkipperShe leaves behind a cheating boyfriend and a best friend, Trisha, who she secretly keeps in touch with. Both women build successful careers in the broadcasting industry and become leaders in their fields. Vanessa falls for a rich bachelor who has no idea of her real identity until their son Brett falls desperately ill with sickle cell, an illness only carried by black people. Chaos ensues when Tod realises Vanessa is indeed black.
I found this book irritating and could not really work out what the core of the story was. The never ending 'history lessons' where Sister Rosalie just started quoting historic figures, sounded forced and excess to the story. The sex scenes were detailed and sometimes clinical, but the development of characters and their relationships to one another, brief and unsatisfying.
There was one part of the book, where Vanessa meets Tod, that gave me hope, with some character development and enough detail for me to begin to be invested in the story That was until I realised that I hadn't even reached the part of the story that was mentioned in the book blurb and I only had a couple of chapters to go. The ending was super rushed and completely ridiculous - the scenes were completely laughable and just unbelievable. If this is Patricia's first book, she has a lot of room for improvement.
Deceptive Calm was anything but calm
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