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File Size: 476 KB
Print Length: 300 pages
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Publisher: MLR Press,LLC (April 25, 2011)
Publication Date: April 25, 2011
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B004Y1NNQO
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The Mahu seriesBy Neil PlakcyFive starsEarlier this year for Prism Book Alliance I wrote about Joseph Hansen’s epic series from the 1970s and 80s, the Dave Brandstetter mysteries. Those books were an essential part of the formation of my gay identity as a twenty-something back in the day. Purchased at the Oscar Wilde Bookstore in Greenwich Village, the Brandstetter books also helped shape my taste in gay literature, which has been a personal specialty of mine for nearly four decades.Brandstetter was a man of my parents’ generation, and the ways in which he handled his gay identity were, in terms of contemporary popular literature, revolutionary. No shame, no fear, only an unshaken sense of justice and belief in his personal moral compass. These books will always hold a key place in the history of gay writing as well as in detective fiction.I’m going to propose that Neil Plakcy’s “Mahu†series—what we could call the Kimo Kanapa’aka mysteries—hold an equally important place in 21st-century gay pop literature. I would even place them, in terms of importance, ahead of the Adrien English series by Josh Lanyon, simply because Neil Plakcy uses his own name and is known in his professional circles (college professor) for these books. For all that it is ubiquitous in m/m literature circles, for me pseudonyms will always bring with them all sorts of unpleasant historical associations with shame and fear of retribution. Gore Vidal was raked over the public coals for publishing “The City and the Pillar†in 1948. But he survived and became an icon (albeit a cranky icon) of gay identity and gay literature.As I tried to think back through all seven books (so far) in Neil Plakcy’s “Mahu†series, I realized that before I started reviewing m/m romances on Amazon and then Goodreads, I wrote what were essentially email mash notes to the authors. Neil was one of the authors who responded warmly to my emails, teaching me the value of writing to authors and (eventually) the importance of writing reviews of every book I read. The chief joy of the internet for me is that we become agents in the success of authors we love.What captivated me immediately with Kimo Kanapa’aka’s story were two things: his evolving ambivalence about being gay, and the crucial importance in his life of his mixed-race extended Hawai’ian family. In the first book, “Mahu,†we see a closeted Honolulu detective, regretful of his absent love life and fearful of what might happen if the other policemen were to learn his secret. I will drop a bit of a spoiler here—but an unavoidable one—to tell you that the crux of this book, other than the murder itself, is that Kimo has to out himself in order to solve the case. It is this painful and terrifying personal choice that launches the rest of the series, and made me fall in love with this smart, thoughtful, sexy Hawai’ian cop.Kimo represents the ironic dichotomy of the generation of gay men who could be my sons. In a world where awareness of all things gay is a thousand percent greater than it was in my youth, the ability to control the unveiling of your gay identity is diminished, while many of the anxieties with which coming out is fraught are no less terrifying than they were for my generation. Plakcy evokes this poignantly in “Mahu,†and continues to unpack these issues throughout the rest of the series.The word “Mahu,†repeated in five of the seven titles so far, is a very specific Hawai’ian word that refers to a third gender. It can be used disparagingly or as a badge of pride, as is the word “queer†today. It also seems to have something of the essence of the mainland Native American concept of “two spirit.†This is just one of the pleasures of this series related to the setting. Plakcy, who lived in Hawai’i for a number of years, makes this American-yet-not-quite-like-the-rest-of-it island state an enormously important part of the story. It is the nature of Hawaii, with its contrasts of beauty and ugliness, its sense of paradise in danger, that colors Kimo’s story and makes the reader yearn to visit (or, in my case, visit again). Just as the Brandstetter mysteries were all about Los Angeles, the “Mahu†series is very much rooted in its place.In the third book in the series, “Mahu Fire,†Kimo meets Mike Ricchardi, half Italian and half Korean. With kindred ambivalence about his sexuality and his family, Mike becomes an increasingly important player in the narrative arc as each book progresses. I don’t want to reveal either the mystery plots or the complexities of Mike and Kimo’s relationship; but it important to start with “Mahu†and read the books sequentially. In fact the books can stand alone, but they’re more interesting as the large picture of gay life and family life in Hawai’i becomes increasingly complex and rich. The Hawai’ian word “ohana†is important in these books—the idea of family as more than blood kin, emphasizing community, loyalty and unconditional support.I think, once Prism publishes this, I’m going to post it on all of the books’ Amazon and Goodreads pages: “Mahu,†“Mahu Vice,†“Mahu Surfer,†“Mahu Fire,†“Mahu Blood,†“Natural Predators†and “Zero Break.†There are some completely unmerited negative reviews of Plakcy’s writing by people who clearly devalue the very things that make them special in the world of gay lit.There’s no accounting for bad reviews and ignorant writers. The internet gives us the power to change things for the writers we love.
Kimo is asked to go undercover to investigate the murders of three surfers in North Shore. This time Kimo is alone, no partner, no family to lean on, and he is still grappling with his new found freedom as an openly gay man. Another well crafted mystery , and the complexities that confound Kimo as he discovers what being out entails.
After reading this authors first book Mahu A Hawai'ian Mystery. I had to read the second book in this series. I think the author has a great feel for the islands and his storyline. Having lived in Hawaii for three years it's easy to see the story developing and to know the places where it is taking place. Looking forward to the next book.
For those who aren't sure, this is the second book in the series. Mahu was the first. I really liked Kimo in the first book, and I was glad to hear more from him. Neil Plakcy seems to sometimes take a long time to describe minute details about things, and sometimes that's a great thing. I feel like those are things I might notice if I was standing where the character is standing. But sometimes he can drag on about unimportant things, and I felt like he did that more in this book than in the first. There didn't quite seem to be enough story to fill all the pages; it seemed like Kimo did a lot of standing around with his hands in his pockets. For a surfing book, and for all the surfing Kimo did in it, he didn't seem to get as involved in the surfing community as I expected; I thought maybe there would be some talk about cute surfer boys or more conversations with surfers and/or more confrontation with homophobic surfers, but he talked to very few. All the surfer scenes seemed to be Kimo alone, a whole beach away from everyone else. So it wasn't as 'surfy' as I wanted. But it was still a really good read and an entertaining one.
I like this story, but whomever put it to Kindle didn't do a great job of joining the pages together. At the end of a page the story does not pick up correctly on the next page. Sentences are cut off or missing. This is going on all through this story. It's not exactly key information being lost but is extremely agrovating. There is no flow at times.
This was great. I had first read one of the later books in the series and then wanted to know the whole backstory on Kimo so I got the first one and the second one. Both were great and they both were fun and moving reads. And there was absolutely no problem ordering and then getting my book on my Kindle within minutes.
Placky is a great story teller and knows how to use local color to enhance the story.
I loved the book. It had just enough intrigue, romance, and action to keep me interested. I think he is a talented writer.
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