Midnight wakes up one morning to find out that his wife, Akemi, has been ‘kidnap’ and brought back to Japan. Her father that originally signed the marriage permission is totally against their union despite their marriage being legal and consume. Being rich and believing he had any rights he brought her back in hopes to destroy the love and have her conform to their normal Japanese ways. He will be force to travel there to get her back but will tangle himself into his other issues, such has falling in love with two other women but one isn’t up to his ‘standards’ and much more. Some secrets will be reveal which will she some lights on beloved Akemi and perhaps makes Midnight love her even more.
I didn’t have much expectations for this book, after reading the first one, I wasn’t really sold on the Midnight saga and this one i shall say was worst. It failed to keep my interest, despite the somewhat suspense included, the love story was cute, believable enough I guess. It brought a definite understanding of the differences between religions and culture. It felt I was reading the same thing over and over and i ended up skipping numerous pages and still didn’t fall out of the loop. Like any bad book there is always a good side, there are some very inspirational quote whether Japanese, Korean or ‘Africans.
She added other items on this one such has pictures of the characters, so you can see whether how you had imagined them, even Akemi’s messages, if you scanned the page with your BlackBerry it would launch the website and hear her actual voice. The title of the book definitely suits the book, the real meaning of love, he did go to the end of the world to find his wife and bring her back to where she belonged while on the flip side, he learned of the sacrifice she was making for him and why. I can tell this book required lots of work, her vivid description of the different countries were accurate, same for their culture. I did feel cheated and hated the relationship he developed with this new character that he met, Chiaisa, half black half Asian and hated how these women reacted to it but understood.
Some parts of the book were left unexplained, the ring? how his sensei got it? What’s the meaning of it? But I suppose that is left to the reader’s imagination. I totally loved Sister Soujljah’s first book, the coldest winter ever, but this one was a complete miss to me. Maybe because I’m not into the “loving” type of story, I can’t seem to put my finger on it.
Book description
Sister Souljah, the New York Times bestselling author of The Coldest Winter Ever and Midnight, delivers her most compelling and enlightening story yet. With Midnight and The Meaning of Love, Souljah brings to her millions of fans an adventure about young, deep love, the ways in which people across the world express their love, and the lengths that they will go to have it.
Powerful and sensual, Midnight is an intelligent, fierce fighter and Ninjutsu-trained ninja warrior. He attracts attention wherever he goes but remains unmoved by it and focuses on protecting his mother and sister and regaining his family’s fortunes. When Midnight, a devout Muslim, takes sixteen-year-old Akemi from Japan as his wife, they look forward to building a life together, but their tumultuous teenage marriage is interrupted when Akemi is kidnapped and taken back to Japan by her own father, even though the marriage was consummated and well underway.
“There’s not one drop of inferiority in my blood,” Midnight says as he first secures his mother, Umma, and sister, Naja, before setting off on a global journey to reclaim his wife. Midnight must travel across three countries and numerous cultures in his attempt to defeat his opponent. Along this magnificent journey he meets people who change him forever, even as he changes them. He encounters temptations he never would have imagined and takes risks that many a lesser man would say no to, all for the women he loves and is sworn to protect.
