Review: Past Lives and Present Meet in an Engaging Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 6, 2012
Threading the line between fact and fiction can a difficult task for an author. Particularly when the topic involves past lives.  Those who haven't experienced past lives will require inspired story telling to suspend disbelief. Those who have experienced past lives - like me -will require skilled story telling to get them past constantly wondering what is fact and what is fiction.In this romance an atheist Australian lawyer, based in London, suddenly starts having experiences that lead her to question her rationality. Her yearning to meet a man she really loves unfolds with an increasing inter-meshing of present life and past lives. What is revealed from the past helps to explain the present and rationality finds its place along side her spiritual experiences.The story engaged me but I didn't take me in enough to silence my fact or fiction wondering- although that would probably that the metaphorical genius of an Isabel Allende to do that. The author does a laudable job of spinning the elements together and my curiosity would draw me into reading future books in the series.