This is not a typicalá horror story or aná Anne Rice-type spin on the nobility of demons.á It is instead a tale of good against evil, pitting the dark side ofá Santeria against the cult of the virgin in which the lives of the characters are influenced by forces that they can't understand.á In it,Rawley Aimes, the central character is torn between his love for his wife and his consuming desire for another woman. Bilongo is as sensuous and steamy as are its scenes ofá both Carnaval iná Rio de Janeiro and of the beaches in Brazil and Costa Rica where the book is set.á But further, itis a condemnation the use of occult power and is a celebration of romantic love.

Mr. Brewer's liberal sprinkling of Portuguese and Spanish throughout the text at first proves daunting, butá it adds a tropical flavor to the work and makes one feel as ifá he'd been transported South to lands wherethese softer sounds are spoken.á And this use ofá language, coupled with the vivid imagery and detail of the book, proves the author to be someonewith more than just a passing knowledge of the places and the subject on which he writes.á