Review: An absolute triumph!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2012
The Soul Bearers by Sylvia Massara is an absolute triumph!  This is the story we all wish we could write!  It is one of the most deep soul touching, more profound novels I have ever read.  The depth of the despair and love that these three characters feel is unequaled to anything I have ever experienced through a book.  This is a story of love and loss, of rejection and acceptance, of life and death, of hope and rebirth.  You will cry your eyes out - it was a deeply cathartic read for me.  Beautifully written, with characters that will get under your skin and you will embrace, with a depth of humanity unparalleled to any other book I have read, poetic and raw at the same time.  Hope; hope is the word that defines this book: hope in spite of certain death, hope in spite of rejection and abuse, hope resulting from true unconditional love. Hope that heals, hope that forgives, hope that is the way to rebirth.  Love as the only important thing worth living for.  Alex will find love - both spiritual and physical - through the love shared by Steve and Matthew, a love that will grow to embrace her too and help her exorcise the demons of her very abusive childhood.  And healing will come on the wings of a butterfly.This book is a definite MUST READ.  No holds barred, no caveats.  This book will show you pure, unadulterated love and hope through tears and loss.