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Let me say up front that I’m an Angela Hunt fan. This is an author who picks very unusual (okay, let’s go ahead and say strange) topics for her books. Unspoken is about Glee, a gorilla specialist, and Sema the gorilla she’s raised from birth.
Not your usual premise for a romance novel.
It’s fantastic. Hunt just pulled me into that book. Glee and her boss Fielding love and hate each other at the same time. Sema is given a personality that transcends the fur on her back. A noble, wise beast who is by turns curious, excited, frightened and always pure of heart.
A new zoo director decides he can make money with Sema’s talent for sign language and he is going to put her on display. Glee loves Sema to the point of obsession and believes she is close to huge breakthroughs in communicating with her.
Fielding, a man Glee once thought she could love, is the one who has to do all the dirty work for the zoo director. Their old relationship keeps wanting to spark to life, but Glee’s fierce protection of Sema and Fielding’s orders to turn Sema into a money making enterprise, aren’t fertile ground for love.
I can’t begin to explain the unexpected twists and the depth of feeling Hunt evokes with Unspoken. Hunt is just unusually talented. I wonder if anyone could toss any premise in Hunt’s direction and she’d turn it into something extraordinary.
This book will captivate you, surprise you and it pulls you in and holds you all the way through its pages.
Reviewed by Mary Connealy
for The Road to Romance
February 9, 2008
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