CHARADE READ-ALONG: Third Week's Discussion Questions

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the third week of

the long-awaited

Charade Read-Along!!!

 

This exciting YA paranormal romance,

written by Cambria Hebert,

is the second in her acclaimed

Heven and Hell series!!

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for all participants!

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Week 3: Chapters 14 - 20 Discussion Questions

 

 

1.)  In these chapters the characters go to Italy.  What one place would you like to travel to that you haven't been? 

Although there are many places I'd love to travel to, the very first one that comes to mind is Paris.  I know it's a cliché, but I do think this is the most romantic city on the planet!  I love everything about Paris -- the architecture of the older buildings, especially those in the Art Nouveau style, the winding, medieval streets, French art (especially Cézanne, Pissarro, and Degas), Notre Dame Cathedral, the Sacré-Coeur, the museums, the food, the wine... I'd love to be able to stroll through Montmartre and check out the sidewalk artists. 

 

Notre Dame de Paris

View from the south.

(photo: Wikipedia Commons)

 

I'd love to spend days and days in the Louvre Museum, gazing at all the masterpieces... and I'd so much love to stroll along the Champs-Élysées with my hunky hubby as the sunset splashes its roses, mauves and reds over the city, then stop along the way to have a glass of wine and a genuine French croissant, as a street violinist begins to play a haunting lovers' melody...

Yes, I'm an unabashed romantic!  Vive le romance!!

2.)  Where is your favorite place that you have traveled to?

Well, I haven't been around that much, but I would have to say the central part and south of Spain, which is my father's native country.  One of my sisters and I went on a two-week tour there with a friend, some years back.  We traveled to several cities -- Madrid, Toledo, Ávila, Granada, Málaga, and Torremolinos.  My favorite cities on this tour were Madrid and Toledo.  Madrid has the magnificent Prado Museum, where I wish I could have gone every day for at least a year!  Toledo was where another of my favorite artists, El Greco, lived.  Sadly, we were in Toledo only one afternoon, since this was a whirlwind tour... We were lucky, nevertheless, to be able to visit the Cathedral of Toledo, which left me completely awestruck!

We were also very fortunate to see the Alhambra, which is a combination palace and fortress, and is located in Granada, in the province of Andalusia.  it was built in the 10th century, when Arabs occupied the southern part of the country.

 

A room of the palace and

a view of The Court of the Lions.

(photo: Wikipedia Commons)

Of course, I loved the Spanish food...especially the chorizos!  This is a type of sausage.  And the paella...this is a super-delicious dish consisting of yellow rice, pieces of chicken, and several kinds of seafood.  Although you can sample these things at several excellent Spanish-cuisine restaurants here in Miami, it was exciting to eat them in their country of origin!

3.)  Kimber betrays Heven in these chapters.  Do you think that Heven should get even or just write Kimber off?  What would you do?

I don't think Heven will get even.  It's just not in her nature.  She's a very sweet person, in contrast to Kimber, who is very spiteful.  As I've said before, I've never liked Kimber.  It's too bad that Heven always gives people, especially her friends, the benefit of the doubt.  I wish she had realized, much earlier, that Kimber is simply not a nice person, and not a true friend. 

Getting even with someone who has hurt you, especially this badly, doesn't bring closure, or justice, to a situation.   I think the best thing to do is to simply write the person off, and this is what I think Heven will do.  Even if she might be thinking of forgiving Kimber, she'll probably decide, in the end, to have nothing further to do with her.  Sam might have to help her do this, since she's so tender-hearted.

Now, as to what I would do, I've just written it.  I would definitely write Kimber off.  What she did was utterly despicable!  She can't be trusted.  Heven would be a fool to ever do so again. 

4.)  Gemma and Cole seem to be attracted to each other, but don't really want to admit it.  Have you ever had a crush you never told anyone about?

Yes, as a matter of fact.  There was this guy named Jeff that I knew at one of my previous jobs, several years ago.  He was blond and blue-eyed, and wore glasses, which I thought looked very cute on him.  I never told my parents (or anyone else) about him, though, because nothing ever came of this crush...

I remember that I asked him for a ride home, one rainy afternoon after work.  I didn't have a car at the time, and had to take the bus to and from work every day.  He agreed.  When he pulled up in front of my parents' house, and just as I was about to get out of the car, I shyly asked him if he would like to have lunch with me sometime.  I don't quite remember what he said.  I think he mumbled something.  Anyway...things at work changed after that, because he started to avoid me.  It wasn't my imagination, either.  So I figured, why tell anyone that I liked this guy?  It was too embarrassing to have to admit that he had rejected me!

Well, my story has a happy ending, though, because  I'm now very happily married to a very handsome, dark-haired man who is also tall, and only wears glasses to read fine print.  Lol!   

5.)  Who is your favorite character in this series so far and why?

I think I answered this question in the Masquerade Read-Along, but I'll gladly answer it again.  It's Sam, of course!!  And the answer to the second question should be more than obvious: he's just wonderful!!  He's the quintessential hero -- tough, yet romantic, handsome to a fault, and very resourceful.  He's the guy every woman wants!!  I mean, just look at the cover of Charade.  Those eyes....that half-open mouth...that adorable expression...  Sam is the guy you want to cuddle up with, especially when it's stormy outside, and there might be a demon or two (shudder!) lurking right outside your door!

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how they answered.

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comments on my own answers!