Yeah...that was Spanish.Haha..SS's making me go crazy about him with his amazing works. God is so cruel to have taken him away from us! "muy malo!"         "It is fiction and yet...",  I was baffled by his words in the beginning. Not anymore after wrapping it up! Except for the Tauro bravo, corrida, ballerinas, scarlet cape, matador, and La Tomatina,  I hadn't seen or heard much of Spain in my life. I saw the country through Hollywood but not so lucid and fine, as in this novel. ( confía en mí! ). It is so true that Power by all means decides whether a person is a rebel or a patriot.SS has this profound skill of devising plots and executing them in the most compelling and unsuspected way.  (gracias a dios , he was not a rebel!.. lol) I gasped during several moments while picturing the wildest passion and intimacy his characters exhibit among themselves. He is Precise and Pensive, yet sharp as a tack! I keep guessing every time there's an overturn o

I felt very very light-headed when I started with the last chapter of the novel. But after completion, I should say, with a heavy heart I had to close the cover of it. It was some kind of a feeling that stood deserted between the awe of its continuation as well as the conclusion. I understood that the title "Pearl in the Mist" was very apt to the story itself. At times the novel made me think about what Ruby Laundry's life would have been for me if I had been in her space. Women should try to be relentless and resolute.,as much as the society and her situation put on her it's demands. Illicit treatment given to the so-called "Backward classes", by the Royal Society Brutes has still not been vanquished by any power in any country. The Cajun family is an example of this statement. Ruby Dumas stands as an embodiment of valiant qualities and moral courage, etching her identity in a great way onto the reader's mind. Virginia Andrews, a wonderful writer, has b