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In a Tel-Aviv hospital during Operation Desert Storm, Sharon Lapidot, a beautiful young nurse, is having an affair with a married doctor. Sharon’s colorful and exciting life is ultimately destroyed by powerful and eroding mistakes. But her courage and wisdom lead her to an unregretful commitment. Vividly told, this compelling journey of love and lust, honor and betrayal, loss and redemption, will move you — and perhaps even change you.
- Sales Rank: #463378 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-01-20
- Released on: 2015-01-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
`I never thought that my lie could be your truth.'
By Grady Harp
Israeli born author Michelle Dim-St. Pierre lived and worked in Tel-Aviv, spending more than half her life there before relocating to the United States. PINNACLE LUST is her debut novel and because of the themes conveyed in this fascinating book it is important to know the experiences she brings to the writing of this story. After graduating from nursing school with a BS in Nursing in Tel-Aviv, Michelle lived through four wars and served in the Israel Defense Forces for two years. Unlike her first year of service in an armored division in the Golan Heights, she spent her second year serving in the medical corps where she interacted directly with the injured soldiers of the Peace of Galilee war and their families. This first hand experience with war and with hospitals and their doctors and nurses provide the seeds that grew into the writing of her novel. After graduating from nursing school she practiced internationally for 32 years in various positions in the surgical field and advanced into health care administration. During her career she worked in the Operating Room, Recovery Room, and CCU - each of these arenas provided technical as well as emotional information she is now sharing not only in this, her debut novel, but also in what promises to be a Trilogy.
Michelle's novel very subtly begins at the end - and it is only after reading the novel that the description of paramedics tending to a critically ill person that we know the stimulus that launches this story. Leigh Stone at age 18 receives a note and a box from her mother who feels compelled to share a few years' worth of diary-like notes she wrote about Leigh's conception and a secret that has been withheld. From this point on the book is the story of Sharon Lapidot: `It revealed how back in November 1990, on a cold Friday night, on her way to work at a local religious Jewish hospital, she had no reason to think that her life was about to turn upside down.' We learn from Sharon that `I was born a kosher and a graceful Jewish girl in Israel. Still, I was not one of them. I belonged to the other Jews--the secular ones. I had no interest in a religious life and sidestepped the radical Jews--especially those who wrapped themselves with a black capote and put on a Shtreimel, that beaver hat worn by a married Hasidic man.' Sharon was the house nursing supervisor at Kol Israel Achim, discontent with her steady high security clearance military boyfriend Joel who not only failed to treat her as an equal but also failed to satisfy her sexual needs. Sharon meets a new doctor to the hospital, Dr. Sloan, a six-foot tall well built hunk and chemistry is ignited. This is all takes place during Operation Desert Storm and Israel is bombarded with scud missiles. These are the facts revealed in a mother's writings for her daughter.
How Leigh comes to deal with this newly discovered secret is the surprising ending of the book.
Michelle Dim-St. Pierre successfully weaves together the spectrum of life in Israel, the conflict and challenges between secular Jews and Hasidic Jews, the influence of wars on a country and relationships. She creates a medical atmosphere that is palpable, a love story that is erotically related, and a main character with great innate human strength of spirit. She brings to life three-dimensional characters who span the spectrum of personal differences and somehow makes every character additive to the plot. A fascinating, sensual read! Grady Harp, January 15
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Pinnacle Lust Takes Readers on a Gritty, Sensual, and Honest Journey of Lust and Love
By Katie
Pinnacle Lust by Michelle Dim-St. Pierre is a story of love, romance, conflict, and finding oneself. In this book the readers lost themselves, as our narrator seemed to do the same. We watched her struggle at understanding who she is with and without the men in her life.
This book is gritty and sensual. It’s real. Everything that plays out before us in this novel seems so real-to-life, so painful, so exciting, and so true. It’s not your happily ever after romance tale. It reads like a memoir; very gripping.
I was engaged with this story from the start. The writer has a wonderful and strong voice, and she hooked me into the world of Sharon; a nurse in Israel in the early 90’s falling head over heels for a married man.
The setting was eye opening, the characters were well developed, the pace flowed organically, and the dialogue was pristine and fun and witty. I was captivated the entire time. This is a very raw story. Nothing is hidden from the reader and I think that is one of the best things Michelle Dim-St. Pierre does with this book. She doesn’t hide the thoughts, feelings, and desperations of a woman in love with a man she shouldn’t be. I also loved how well the narrator’s friends and job were wrapped into this story. Because that is real life - the little bits and pieces of life affect all aspects of our world. Her affair affected work and friends, and vice versa.
There were a few things about the book that left me slightly unfulfilled; the ending, the main character’s independence, and the introduction of the daughter in the beginning of the book.
This story didn’t actually end. No one received closure, in my opinion. I think the author did this on purpose, because such is in real life. But when I read fiction I want closure. I was disappointed I didn’t receive it.
Our main character is supposed to be a strong and independent woman who can handle her own, and yet…she can’t. She struggles to live in a world without a man; specifically, without one man. Sharon, the main character is in love and having an affair with a married man for most of this story. We know she is smart; smarter than she acts for many years of her life, and that frustrates me. Sharon knows how this will end, no matter how much hope she has for her future, but she can never leave without him. She struggles to make the first - and ultimately only - move in life. She lets others make the life moves for her. She is a pawn. Why? To show the control love has over a life? To show how weak we are when our heart is involved? When lust is involved?
The final piece of this novel that I wish had been more developed is the beginning and ending. Pinnacle Lust begins in Leigh, an 18 year old girl’s, perspective. She is Sharon’s daughter. Leigh receives a note from her mother with years of journaling/letters and learns the story that came before she was born, and about the man who is truly her father. This is how Sharon’s story is introduced and then we dive into Sharon’s story. But then we don’t see Leigh again until the very end of the book. And she doesn’t receive closure either. The reason I’m not sure about this choice is because if a character is introduced in that way (starting a story), then the story of her mother (which is actually the focus of the book) needs to also change the first character, Leigh. Both are the protagonists and both need to grow and change. The daughter needs to change from start to finish because this story changes her life, and the mother needs to change because her life changes and she needs to change with it. We need to see character growth. But we don’t get that with the daughter and that bugs me because it makes the choice to insert her into the novel feel superficial and undeveloped. What about her story? What about her life after this knowledge? Why introduce her to the reader and flip her world upside down to not actually show the reader her growth and ending? If there plans to be another book in the series, I guess I could see this work. But I don’t think there is, and even though as I mentioned before I know real life is this way -without closure- I don’t usually want my fiction to read that way.
However, those are my only caveats. I thought this was a gripping and well-written tale of love, lust, and the decisions we make when those two things are involved.
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a well-written story of love and the struggles in reality. Keep in mind this is a story of an affair, from the perspective of “the other woman”. I liked reading that side of the story because it was eye-opening and engaging. It makes you wonder how you’d handle certain choices if your soul mate was already taken.
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Sex, Lies, Betrayal And One Woman's Unyielding Faith In Life And Love
By John J. Kelly
“Pinnacle Lust,” the emotionally charged, complex and gripping debut novel by Michelle Dim-St. Pierre, is an emotionally intimate, sensual, and moving novel, about the very nature of human emotion and free will. It’s an unyielding woman’s confession to her daughter of love, lies and betrayal; a masterfully rendered story within a story that leaves the reader stunned, and still hungry for more. Filled with intimate, sensual and sometimes comical stories of love, lies, deceit and betrayal, “Pinnacle Lust,” charts one woman’s discovery of the depth of her own heart and the inherent danger we face each day in deciding whether or not to trust each other with our hearts and souls. Michelle Dim St-Pierre’s triumphant, daring debut heralds an ambitious talent and welcomes a new voice to contemporary fiction.
From the opening paragraphs of “Pinnacle Lust,” one feels the gravity of what is to come, as well as a colorful, emotional palate of the author’s wide, brilliant canvas. Paramedics in Israel race to save a life, the victim of some horrible trauma. “The gates of Heaven appeared to Leigh in a dramatic picture. It was a mixture of Heaven and Hell. Unique colors of the sunset dipped into the horizon—reds, blacks, golds and pinks, changing their shades rapidly.” Against this backdrop, Leigh drifts into a memory of the shocking discovery of long-held secrets and lies. On the day she turned 18, her mother finally told the truth behind so many lies, in the form of an “elegantly” handwritten journal; an intricately woven and deeply detailed explanation of her past. As Leigh reflects on reading the journal, we, too, are transported into the past and the life of Sharon Lapidot, the details of which begin to peel away like the skin of an onion, tears and all.
Sharon writes that she was a “kosher and graceful Jewish girl in Israel,” working as the House Nursing Supervisor at a brand new hospital, set in a Hassidic area in Israel around the start of the first Gulf War. Sharon admits she did not practice the traditions of more “radical” members of her faith and neighborhood, and because of this she often felt like an “outsider.” Even worse, she’s unhappily trapped in an unfulfilling, sexually unsatisfying relationship with a career officer in the “top secret” IDF, Israel Defense Force.
Longing for authentic love and emotional passion in her life, it’s not surprising when she’s instantly attracted to a new face at the hospital, the tall, dark, handsome and flirtatious Dr. Sloan, who also happens to be married with children. Still, the heart wants what the heart wants and it’s not long before Sharon and Dr. Sloan begin a steamy, albeit adulterous affair, which lasts three years. At first, Sharon’s new paramour seems ambivalent about his lackluster marriage, but it isn’t long before he is staying with Sharon and expressing his undying love for her. Neither is able to resist the temptations of the flesh and her journal entries are filled with detailed accounts of red-hot lovemaking. At one point, a half-naked Sloan says to Sharon:
“We’re not going to talk. I have to love you here and now,” he said and let his body rub against mine. “I don’t want any clever conversation. I really don’t care why and when. All I want is you.”
The choice was mine. I could refuse him or give in. But I couldn’t resist him.”
And that’s just a small PG-rated sample of the love and lust that Sharon and Sloan shared and is recounted in the journal. It may seem slightly salacious, but the sex scenes are vital to the plot in showing the depth of affection at this particular stage. Something like: "50 Shades of Sloan."
Sharon repeatedly describes in this journal presented to her daughter, this daring mother’s wild and ecstatic romance with Dr. Sloan as a “fairy tale.” But like all fairy tales, it also includes several monsters and daunting challenges that eventually lead to the novel’s exciting and shocking climax.
In the final chapter, Dim-St. Pierre takes us back to where we began (and beyond), and, ultimately, we are left with more questions than answers about the very essence of this love affair. The author brings us full circle, back to the journal, with Sharon eloquently writing to Leigh:
"Life is a chain of endless, different loves. One love cannot resemble another. They each uniquely serve you in some way…I have no doubt that you are the result of a supreme, impossible love. You are the testimony of your father’s statement that our love would never die.
Michelle Dim-St. Pierre’s debut is a masterpiece both because the detailed and intimate details that make us feel one with Sharon and her brave decisions, and because “Pinnacle Lust” has the audacity to speak of the absolute necessity of love and courage in our increasingly complex, dangerous world; a world still craving love.
“Pinnacle Lust” is truly transcendent and highly recommended.
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