Review: The mysteries of SPIRIT SONG continue
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2014
Author Sherry Janes comes to writing through life experiences that would challenge even the most bold. She has studied about every form of spiritual growth - meditation, hypnotic regression to discover past lives, dream decoding, sense energy fields, learning the transformational, high frequency healing method, studying Edgar Cayce (an American psychic who allegedly possessed the ability to answer questions on subjects as varied as healing, reincarnation, wars, Atlantis and future events while in a trance), learning how to identify possible past lives in other cultures (for Janes many were in South America or the American Southwest, as well as Egypt and Greece), traveling to Arizona and Colorado on missions of learning and returning to Minnesota where she became writer and editor for the Minnesota Cayce organization's community newsletter. She learned what it means to live a spiritual life without the dogma of religion and has experimented with the holistic remedies suggested by Cayce, beginning a life-long interest in natural healing. From all those mystical experiences her writings became novels suffused with all of these elements, concepts too few of us know, much less have experienced or understand.SPIRIT SONG, SEEDS IN THE BLOOD is a fast-paced paranormal adventure in the Venezuelan rain forest. Given Sherry Janes' proclivities it is not surprising that this novel, in addition to being a well-molded adventure story, is also a study of the supernatural. For readers normally not inclined to seek books in this genre this novel is one to try the concepts at least once. The heroine could very well be Janes! The cast is basically the same as in CAPE OF THE RED JAGUAR, the first SPIRIT SONG book. This time the mysterious Book of Persivann, hidden in by the Santiagos in the Venezuelan Andes is the focal point. The author's condensed version of the plot deserves quoting. `Just before they travel to Christina's home in the U.S., Rafael (a medical doctor, rainforest shaman, and Christina's husband) has a terrifying shaman's journey, where he receives a warning and is chased through the rain forest by something dark and unholy. Once in Minnesota, long-held secrets about Christina and her sister, Ellen's ancestry are revealed and explain why the most powerful dark force being on the planet wants them and the Book of Persivann. That force is Ahriman, a fallen angel living on Earth in human form as the ruthless and powerful master of darkness. His true goal is too horrible to contemplate, and he believes the Book holds the secrets he needs to carry it out. An all-out attack by Ahriman and his army of flying creatures succeeds in capturing Christina and Ellen, inflicting horrifying wounds, and leaves Rafael and his brother Pablo for dead in the depths of Lake Minnetonka. The master now holds the injured sisters in his private research facility on his estate across the lake from the girls' home. He only needs the Book that he believes will give him the next step in his diabolical plan and he believes Christina knows where it is. If he gains this knowledge and shares it with the dark force hierarchy, the sisters will live a life of horror and Planet Earth's shift to the fifth dimension could explode in disaster instead of a step into a bright, new dimension.'Janes writing style is propulsive, well conceived and paced, and allows time for the various sidebars of her story to develop so that the reader never feels lost in what could be a puzzling atmosphere. Her scholarly bent is offered in the postscript to the booking which she offers a fascinating history of the Book of Persivann and the implications on the future of the globe. For lovers of the paranormal genre it is a winner. For those not yet attached to this level of thought this book is a fine introduction. Grady Harp, July 14