Exceptionally well-developed characters | Paying the Price

Hawaii & Real Estate | Paying the Price | Madge Walls

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	• Paying the Price Madge Walls Dialogue Publishing, Inc., 2005 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A MUST READ FOR ALL REALTORS!!!

A MUST FOR ALL REALTORS!!!
by Jacqui Pirl, an author and avid reader, 02/03/2008

My copy of this book arrived and I devoured it, cover to cover, in three days! The main character, Laura McDaniel is a divorced real estate agent who is trying to make ends meet while living on Maui. This book is a great read for anyone involved in real estate!

This book is an entertaining and interesting look at single parenting, motherhood, divorce, life on Maui, and the ups and downs of the real estate business. The author takes us from Maui to Oahu and explores some of the subtle undertones of religion and societal expectations...some of which seem to be counterproductive to really `living right' in today's world, in what the Hawaiian's call pono.

Walls even explores the unusual social climate of Hawaii's public and private school systems, something any parent new to Hawaii should read up on.

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Exceptionally well-developed characters

I couldn't put this book down. From the very beginning, you relate to and really care about the characters - no one-dimensional stereotypes here! As a fellow real estate agent, it was refreshing to see an agent portrayed as a real person, not some hyped-up caricature a la American Beauty. For anyone interested in a real estate career, the situations and people Laura encounters are dead-on - so to speak. Paying the Price describes perfectly what a real estate career is all about; sometimes exhilarating, sometimes devastating, but always interesting. Terrific job, Madge, can't wait for the sequel!

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Hawaii & Real Estate

I must admit it took me a lil' longer than normal to read "Paying The Price" by Madge Walls. The book was good. It bought new light to the actual residents of Hawaii and people that are in the real estate business. Her characters sparked an interest in you from the very begining. They were people that you may have known and/or seen in some of your own neighborhoods. She also bought to life the real and not so distant fear that many of us try not to think about. Yes the fear of our own child being sexually used. She told a story with suspense, horror and love all mixed in with hope for a better future!

Thanks for sharing Madge!!

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Non Stop Thrills!

Walls does a great job of creating conflict, characters, and thrills in this emotional roller coaster-ride of a story. You'll cheer, boo, and gasp at this wonderful cast of characters and the tribulations they face.
This was a fun, adventurous read.
Karen L. Reddick, author of Grammar Done Right!

Waves of heartbreak, horror and hope

I just finished reading Madge Walls' novel Paying the Price. More of an experience--a vacation--than just a book, this wonderful tale had me neglecting my own activities so I could keep turning the pages.

The protagonist, Maui Realtor Laura McDaniel, deals daily with loads
of trouble: her demanding, often unreasonable clients; her well-meaning but overbearing mother; her traumatized, pregnant, teenaged, prodigal daughter; her attractive ex-husband who has troubles of his own; and genuinely dangerous, local loons.

Laura's struggles: feast or famine finances, mother/daughter/grandmother guilt, and the loneliness of facing huge, life-changing decisions alone, are so real and so universal that they make the shocking twists and turns of the book believable and all the more jolting.

Peppered with island words and phrases, food, scenery, and cultural oddities, the setting surrounds and complements the story. Each time I opened the book, I rode the waves of heartbreak, horror and hope in beautiful Hawaii. If I put it to my ear, I can almost hear the ocean now.

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Paying the Price is the story of a real estate deal on Maui that goes terribly bad, threatening to wreck the lives of everyone involved. Add a heaping helping of mother-daughter conflict, and you've got an armchair trip to the Valley Isle that will keep you turning the pages and cheering for our Realtor heroine Laura McDaniel all the way to closing.

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