Luano Luckiest Day edition by Chaunce Stanton Literature Fiction eBooks
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Luano's Luckiest Day is set in an isolated desert town. Luano is a normal nine-year-old boy who wants nothing more than to be reunited with the woman who abandoned him soon after he was born. When two deadly spiders appear in Luano's bedroom, the boy makes a dangerous decision to believe their promise - the promise of his mother's return.
The fulfillment of Luano's deepest wish takes him on a life-and-death journey that promises readers plenty of action, colorful characters, and bittersweet laughter.
Luano Luckiest Day edition by Chaunce Stanton Literature Fiction eBooks
Here we have a tale of a boy's search for his mother, an uncle's terrible secret, a love story between two mismatched but passionate people, a town's missing church bells, honey tomatoes and...spiders. (Arachnophobes beware.)Luano lives with Uncle Tabula. He helps in the Uncle's shop, pines for Shelita Maria his mother and collects...spiders. Or do they collect him? Oh what a web we weave, as the saying goes, and Chaunce Stanton has woven a fine tale full of colorful people in a dusty, somewhere out there desert town where characters climb a web of lies that holds many of them together, and keeps many more apart. The youngster, Luano, with his pals Pietro and Pedro--two durable friends throughout the book--roam together doing boy stuff, playing in the street, visiting watering holes and sharing secrets, except when Luano veers off in search of his mother. Shelita Maria is hiding in plain sight, and her presence is concealed in spiderly fashion by the author, until she appears in front of her son. Woven in with the terrible secret are several sub-themes, including the depredations of an evil landlord, Tabula's war injury and debility, ghosts in the town cemetery and more. Readers might get the idea that 'Luano's Luckiest Day' contains topics hidden in the web of its text to be revealed only after a second reading.
Like all of this author's writing, the story is rich in imagery, delicately woven--yes, like a spider web--and very well told. Its surreal quality will appeal to readers who value fantasy fiction. In the intro, Stanton says the idea came to him in a dream, and it reads as if he didn't wake up.
The interaction between Luano and Shelita Maria seemed a bit undeveloped, (The Black Widow theme?) and the turn may have been foreshadowed perhaps a bit too well. The 'Luckiest Day' of the title needs more emphasis, or perhaps better definition. Nublado needs to be softened a bit, as he's too evil by half. I read the digital version, and there are a few formatting and typographical errors, but very few. One necessity of any story is to give readers a character to cheer for, and Stanton has given us Luano. A well crafted, highly readable, dreamlike book by a master storyteller.
Byron Edgington, author of SkyWriting: Essays on the Art and Craft of Aviation (Volume 1)
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Luano Luckiest Day edition by Chaunce Stanton Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Well Mr Chaunce Stanton. This is not the sort of story book that I would normally ever pick up off a shelf, anywhere. I am a bit of a stick, and I love my crime and historical fiction.
However, I actually really enjoyed it! It is a story that once you immerse yourself in, it warms you through, and engages you completely with the lives of its main characters. The heat and dust of the desert can be felt and draws you into the tension.
From about Chapter twenty it was impossible to put down. I wanted to see how the turn would change everyone, and I love the way you created the suspense and the story swung.
As an Arachnophobe, I was enthralled by your imagery of the cowled spiders, and their hold over Luano, physically and in his imagination. Scary stuff, with the most imaginative cobwebs I have ever seen described.
I began to see the illusion in the story, and the surreality of the lives of the main players, touchable but always slipping out of the fingertips. A boy's beliefs and hopes , aspirations blown away in the hot desert sands. Love and loss, and resignation, having but never quite having!
The Fire Dragons scared the hell out of me and I could see them vividly against the arid desert and the influence they imposed.
I look forward to 'Blank Slate Boarding House....' IMMENSLY'
The author says in a note to the reader that the story came to him in a dream. When you read the novel, you will see that it fits. In the first chapters, in which the author describes the setting and introduces us to the main characters, the atmosphere is almost fairy-tale like.
Normally I would never pick up a book with a spider on the cover (and in fact, I never read the book before going to sleep for fear I would end up having spider-related nightmares!), but I came across this one and decided to download the free sample. Already in the first few pages the author pulled me into his magical world, and he describes the town in the desert so well and with so many loving and never superfluous details that I can't believe he never lived there.
After a few chapters the mood changes and a more realistic feel took over for me. This is also the point where the tension starts to build, and in the end it became a real page-turner.
Chaunce Stanton is a master storyteller and I especially liked his language and choice of words. He is fantastic at evoking a very special mood.
Here we have a tale of a boy's search for his mother, an uncle's terrible secret, a love story between two mismatched but passionate people, a town's missing church bells, honey tomatoes and...spiders. (Arachnophobes beware.)
Luano lives with Uncle Tabula. He helps in the Uncle's shop, pines for Shelita Maria his mother and collects...spiders. Or do they collect him? Oh what a web we weave, as the saying goes, and Chaunce Stanton has woven a fine tale full of colorful people in a dusty, somewhere out there desert town where characters climb a web of lies that holds many of them together, and keeps many more apart. The youngster, Luano, with his pals Pietro and Pedro--two durable friends throughout the book--roam together doing boy stuff, playing in the street, visiting watering holes and sharing secrets, except when Luano veers off in search of his mother. Shelita Maria is hiding in plain sight, and her presence is concealed in spiderly fashion by the author, until she appears in front of her son. Woven in with the terrible secret are several sub-themes, including the depredations of an evil landlord, Tabula's war injury and debility, ghosts in the town cemetery and more. Readers might get the idea that 'Luano's Luckiest Day' contains topics hidden in the web of its text to be revealed only after a second reading.
Like all of this author's writing, the story is rich in imagery, delicately woven--yes, like a spider web--and very well told. Its surreal quality will appeal to readers who value fantasy fiction. In the intro, Stanton says the idea came to him in a dream, and it reads as if he didn't wake up.
The interaction between Luano and Shelita Maria seemed a bit undeveloped, (The Black Widow theme?) and the turn may have been foreshadowed perhaps a bit too well. The 'Luckiest Day' of the title needs more emphasis, or perhaps better definition. Nublado needs to be softened a bit, as he's too evil by half. I read the digital version, and there are a few formatting and typographical errors, but very few. One necessity of any story is to give readers a character to cheer for, and Stanton has given us Luano. A well crafted, highly readable, dreamlike book by a master storyteller.
Byron Edgington, author of SkyWriting Essays on the Art and Craft of Aviation (Volume 1)
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