“A boy lost his way in the Sulu Sea, lands in an uninhabited Filipino island where he falls in love with a Pinay herb collector who proposes marriage. The blue birds of the island enchant the boy. The Filipino police send him back to his mother country. When grown up he again visits the Philippines as a journalist and discovers the girl turned into a heartless money-hungry business woman…”
Besides a picture of a very under-aged girl (yikes), I think those blue birds need to look a bit more menacing after what they did to the boy.
Just a nitpick on the blurb: aren’t “uninhabited” islands supposed to be, you know, uninhabited? Just saying.
Well, I suppose a person can be on an uninhabited island without inhabiting it; like if she’s just passing through to collect herbs (and strange men, apparently). I’m more concerned with someone landing “in” an island (sounds painful!) and with the screwed up past/present tense in that first sentence.
Kris
9 years ago
This cover and the next (same author) show an astounding ignorance of what books are supposed to look like.
“A boy lost his way in the Sulu Sea, lands in an uninhabited Filipino island where he falls in love with a Pinay herb collector who proposes marriage. The blue birds of the island enchant the boy. The Filipino police send him back to his mother country. When grown up he again visits the Philippines as a journalist and discovers the girl turned into a heartless money-hungry business woman…”
Besides a picture of a very under-aged girl (yikes), I think those blue birds need to look a bit more menacing after what they did to the boy.
Just a nitpick on the blurb: aren’t “uninhabited” islands supposed to be, you know, uninhabited? Just saying.
I came here to post the same thing — who’s meeting someone on an “uninhabited” island?
Well, I suppose a person can be on an uninhabited island without inhabiting it; like if she’s just passing through to collect herbs (and strange men, apparently). I’m more concerned with someone landing “in” an island (sounds painful!) and with the screwed up past/present tense in that first sentence.
This cover and the next (same author) show an astounding ignorance of what books are supposed to look like.
Given these two books on LBC by this author, I’m afraid to do a Look Inside…
Photobombing author!
How many of these pictures were “taken” from a Google search do you think?
All of them.