Book Review of Sultry, Is the Night by Barbara Avon

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐️⭐️⭐-(5/5)

The two leading characters of this novel: Sultry, Is the Night, by Barbara Avon, are Mario and Tess. These two have both undergone heartfelt losses, and soon they share similarities in the volume of viciousness life has shown to them. Somehow they find strength and form a bittersweet love alliance, sharing values, family ties, and affection. 

Barbara Avon has done a tremendous job in characterization. Each character has a life and a story to tell. The author allows the reader to live like the character, draws you to their fierce emotions, and makes you identify with their harsh realities through her impeccable descriptions. 

Barbara outdid herself in the entire atmosphere of this novel. The settings and displays used to create complexion were flawless. Her writing was descriptive, narrative, and expository as well. She skillfully pulls taut a resemblance of a town’s degradation that you could almost perceive the odors permeating the establishments and the thoroughfares by merely reading.

To say I was not entirely impressed with this book would be a fallacy. I was in a chokehold from the cover art to the last page. The conspiracy was dark and depressing, but the romance was steamy and vicious. What I enjoyed the most was the incredible lessons infiltrated into this book. You would learn to live and love, and you would pick a thing or two about overcoming the many hurdles life would throw at you.

Honestly, this is a book to purchase on your next visit to the bookstore. Barbara is a bundle of talent in fine writing, and you can only relish her writing by engaging her books. A complete 5-star novel and nothing less.

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About the Author

Barbara Avon was born in Switzerland and immigrated to Canada when she was two years old. She grew up Italian in the Niagara Region and attended Notre Dame High School, and then Brock University. She moved to Ottawa, Ontario, in 1999 to pursue work. She has worked for two major Ottawa area magazines and is a published poet.

Always having had a penchant for the written word, she has dreamed of writing a novel. She is also the author of three unique children's books that allow the child to draw the illustrations, and a compilation of micro-fiction, “Love Bites.” She is working on her next novel, a love story with her characteristic suspense element.

In 2018, she won SpillWords Author of the Month, as well as FACES Magazine “Favourite Female Author”. Her work appears in various anthologies including Steering 23 Publications, Storytime for Grownups, and Beyond the Levee. She is an active member of the Writing Community on Twitter (@barb_avon).

Together with her husband, she has established BUCCILLI Publishing in homage to her maiden name.

Avon lives in Ontario, Canada with her husband Danny, their tarantula Betsy, and their houseplant, “Romeo”.