The Wedding Song

Ira Eisenstadt
Melody Hill Press (2006)
ISBN 0978581407
Reviewed by Beverly Pechin for Reader Views

“The Wedding Song” is simply a book of ‘many colors’, combining the worlds of baseball, romance, and suspense all into one neatly authored story.  Ira Eisenstadt somehow manages to grab the attention of every reading preference imaginable.  A story of a baseball catcher who wants it all, somehow gets caught up in the strange and bazaar world he finds in Jamaica during the off-season.

Catcher, Sol Bable, finds himself intrigued with Mas Afrikani, an ancient Jamaican phenomenon that his friend and ‘bellhop’, Wooly introduces him to.  Will this strange underworld culture change Sol Bable’s entire life?  Will he risk losing everything he has worked so hard to achieve, including his own marriage?  The strange and intriguing cult like forces involved, pull Sol deeper and deeper into a world of unknown, offering him temptations that he may eventually fall to. Will his wife Fannie ever understand and figure out the stranger that comes home to her?

An intriguing, edge of your seat story, that combines thrills and romance, with a touch of America’s favorite past time.  Just when you think you know what’s about to happen, the author achieves another climaxing point in the story that changes everything.  Eisenstadt will keep you guessing to the end if catcher Sol Bable will ever obtain the peace he’s looking for or how he will do it.  Simply an amazing piece of literature that can hold face against even some of the best tales known to man, combining the tale of human lust for success and happiness with the reality of the price man pays to find both.

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