The Reef Girl: The last novel of one of the greatest storytellers of all time

By Zane Grey

Book Overview

An American writer travels with his fiancee to Tahiti and is lured away from her by the seductive splendor of the island and by a Tahitian beauty named Faaone, who sweeps him into a web of murder,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060116242
• ISBN13: 9780060116248
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Zane Grey in the South Seas

When this book was published in 1977 it was listed as the "last" novel. Since then those of us who love Zane Grey know other books have been released and who is to say when the "last" one will be printed. But this book is as good as any Zane Grey 'western' ever published since his death in 1939, in their "original" form by Harpers. Indeed, Zane Grey could have made a good living by writing about the South Seas and the ocean as he did by writing about the South West. True, at the time this book was presented for publication before he died, it was quite risque and daring for the Zane Grey personna, but hardly more so than other writers of the day. There are typical ZG characters in typical ZG settings, but his descriptive presentation is well worth the book all by itself. Zane Grey was unparalleled when it came to research into a subject and to being faithful to the time and place of the story. Yes, some of the language is dated; and yes, his characters do act in often outrageous ways; but they had to do so to carry the book to its proper conclusion. The Reef Girl is well worth reading.

Captures the Feeling of the Islands

The Reef Girl is an exciting daring tale from one of America's great writers. The characters are believable, the setting is authentic, and the romance/adventure is fun and dramatic. Some of the dialogue is dated but the feeling is still there, and I can't help but think that Zane's wife Dolly, being an English major, had a lot of do with editing and building the vocabulary past a standard western story. It is well worth buying and reading. Being an islander (Saipan), I enjoyed it and wholeheartedly passed it on to prolific, but precise fellow readers. Well done Zane, wherever you are!

FANTASTIC!

This is an adventure/romance - not a western novel. It is totally unique among the numerous books Grey wrote, and a must read for true fans. The style is curiously modern for this author. The book was released posthumously in the 1970's, and I know collectors of Grey's literature who don't even know about it, and don't believe it exists even when I tell them it does. I am not sure why it has been slighted, but for no good reason that I can see. I actually count this among my favorites.