Iguana Love

Library Journal

In Hendricks's second novel, Ramona has a big thirst for thrills, cheap and otherwise. She also wants freedom from her marriage. She satisfies both of these longings by learning to dive and by picking up her fellow divers at seedy bars in southern Florida. However, Ramona gets in way over her head; very quickly the thrills turn dangerous and then deadly, especially when Enzo, one of Ramona's diving instructors, as trashy and shameless as she but a lot more sinister, enters the picture. Maybe Ramona should have stayed home to look after her pet iguana instead of piling up credit card bills for diving lessons and equipment. Certainly, she should never have let Enzo persuade her to be his drug-courier accomplice on a run to Bimini. Some feminists will cheer the ending of this book, but it's not much of a victory for the one left standing. Hendricks (Miami Purity), an English professor and an amateur diver herself, writes in clear, crisp prose that is also quite sexually explicit. Her descriptions of the serenity and vastness of the ocean surface or of the aquatic species living underneath will mesmerize readers.--Lisa S. Nussbaum, Euclid P.L., OH Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

Maxim Jakubowski

"Guaranteed to raise your temperature, whatever the weather."

Reviewer Unnamed

"A guilty pleasure to savor slowly."