Healing Water Review

This is the first English novel I read, and to me the first one is always the most memorable one. I felt really relieved because of the happy ending for both Pia and Kamaka. But it would be much more satisfying if the author had one more chapter to mention about other characters. 

At first, when I read first 20 pages, I could not understand what was going on in this novel. I felt lost but because we had a novel quiz on Monday, I tried to reread it two more times to figure out what the author was trying to say. In the beginning, it was not fascinating enough for me to spend hours reading but gradually I was absorbed in getting to know what would happen next with all characters. Unfortunately, at the end of the novel, the author just focused on Pia and Kamaka without mentioning about other characters that play important roles in healing Pia ’s heart and teaching him about forgiveness. I hope that Maka Nui, Piolani, Ah Loy are having a happy life with their new o’hana on Molokai’i. But maybe that is the author ‘s purpose, and he succeeded in making us deeply memorize the unfinished ending because we tend to remember unhappy or inconclusive events more than happy ones. But one thing I am quite sure is that Pia is not gay, I feel like he is into Piolani, I would be more than happy if the author gave them a chance to become a couple and live a happy life with Kamaka and Malia. Moreover, I appreciate his effort in using o’lelo Hawaii in his writing, and it gives us a chance to learn Hawaiian language.

I feel grateful for Pia when he has such a nice friend like Kamaka , and I am truly sympathetic with Pia when he was abandoned by Kamaka. But he should have been happy because Kamaka truly loves and needs him, and he puts a lot of effort in fixing their friendship. Personally, I am not lucky enough to rebuild my old friendship, maybe because our friendship was not strong enough or they did not see anything wrong in our relationship or I was too sensitive and overthinking. But nothing is important then, I don’t see any point in fixing that relationship.

After finishing this novel, I feel interested in reading novels in English, and I intend to start a novel I bought a few months ago. If someone asks me for a novel recommendation, Healing water will be off the top of my head.