Safe Passage by Kate Owen

Safe Passage by Kate Owen

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


A simple quick book about more New Orleans lesbians (New Orleans be popular). This is the second book I've read by this author, other book I gave 5 stars to, this one I give 3.75(something).

A woman wants to make a larger closet for her clothing so, despite being somewhat clumsy and notoriously bad with tools, Jules starts (very carefully) slamming a sledgehammer into her closet wall. She does this despite the fact that her house has like, three or four entire spare guest rooms that she could convert into a closet. Mind, a larger closet in your actual bedroom might be 'nicer' but no one else lives in the house and she's 'notoriously bad with tools', so the smarter option would have just been to do what my mother did when her kids moved out - converted their bedrooms into closets.

While hammering away Jules stuns herself when the tool slams into metal. Confused she looks closer. And closer. She's found a safe. That she can't open. Locksmith contacted, locksmith opens safe, items examined (okay, here - she looked at what the items were, but . . . seemed to be like someone who eats food one item at a time (must not let peas touch steak! must eat peas now! NO PEAS ONLY!) - I say because she examines each item, slowly, before ever looking at the rest. As in, she looks at a drawing of an attractive black woman. Then looks at a letter. Then . . continues to look at letter. Decodes letter. Spends days (weeks?) working on that letter, trying to figure it out . . . while completely ignoring everything else in the safe (which, by this point, is just a journal but still, maybe there's something in the journal of use, perhaps?).

Right, jumped ahead of myself. Jules, despite being a many generation French descendant, doesn't know French. And the letter appears to be in French. And there's this really gorgeous (straight, assumed) French teacher Jules can call upon. Or have the excuse to get close to the other woman. So, Jules and Gen work on the letter together. Gen, by the way, isn't the only teacher in this story - Jules is a math teacher (and a rowing coach).

Interesting enough story. Nothing earth shattering. There were some 'funny moments', or at least moments that could have had a tinge of humor, but they weren't really conveyed in a humorous manner. Not sure if that was just me, or what exactly happened there with the humor angle.

Right, so, another author I've now read everything they've written.

Rating: 3.75

Mary 9 2017



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