BOOK #39
Monday, 09/23/07 to Sunday, 09/30/07
ISBN-10: 0778324206
ISBN-13: 978-0778324201
Well... even though it was a September BookSense Pick, this is another book I just didn't like. I should have known... when an author best known for erotic thrillers starts writing about religious myth and past-life discovery, it's time to beware. Don't waste your time on this one.
REVIEW FROM BOOKLIST:
After a bomb explosion nearly kills photojournalist Josh Ryder, he begins experiencing flashbacks—or, perhaps, memories—of events that seem to have happened to him 1,600 years earlier, in another life. Convinced these episodes aren't figments of his imagination, he enlists the aid of the Phoenix Foundation, a group that specializes in past-life research. Later, when he becomes involved in the unearthing of an ancient tomb—and experiences a connection with its long-buried resident—Josh realizes he has a chance to right a wrong that happened a millennium and a half ago, not to mention an opportunity to solve a series of modern-day murders. This is one of those books that succeeds in spite of itself: even though the writing is merely competent, the story itself is so appealing that you can't stop reading. Josh Ryder is a difficult character to pull off (among other things, he's a man in love with a woman who lived 1,600 years ago), and at times he comes off a little loopy. But for the most part he, like the novel itself, is surprisingly well grounded in the real world. -- David Pitt
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