The Last Aloha
A Novel

This had an intriguing start. Laura loses her father and her fiance both and goes to live with her aunt in Hawaii. Her aunt suffers ill health, her uncle is a pure evil villain, and the care of her two girl cousins falls into Laura's hands. Laura eventually realizes (not soon enough in my opinion) t......more

If you thought that one day the United States decided to annex the Hawaiian Islands, then viola they became the fiftieth state, well, you’d be wrong. In The Last Aloha, Quinn illustrates the duplicity and conniving of Hawaiian politicians to become attached to America. Quinn cloaks her research in a......more

Interesting early history of Hawaii’s horrific journey to statehood but the writing was a little dry.......more

I chose this book, as I sat in a poolside lounge chair at a fancy hotel in Waikiki Beach, because I wondered how such a beautiful, sacred place became a part of the US, and even though I already knew Hawaii was stolen from its people as another example of manifest destiny, I didn't know the story of......more

I started this book on my flight to Hawaii. It was a hard read, being an islander this book hit straight to the heart. This was not my first trip to Hawaii, but I wanted to dig more into the past while there. Still reading chapters along the way this book brought so much more life to the places I wa......more