Review: Fantastic read; compelling and original
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
If you love all things paranormal (think television series `Fringe'), you'll love this book by Jacqueline Diamond.  Author of more than 95 novels and former Associated Press reporter and TV columnist, Diamond has a natural knack for writing.  Couple talent with an intriguing theme, and here you have a definite page-turner.This book, for me, was right up my alley.  It plays with topics such as circumstance, opportunity, destiny and what may or may not be fated.  It also explores the possibility that we all have a dark side and, given different life circumstances, or different upbringings, who knows who or what we may have become.The novel bases itself on the proposition that multiple universes exist in which, multiple versions of ourselves may or may not exist (depending on whether certain events have or have not occurred to exact certain pairings and, hence, births).  Transit between worlds is dependent on the intermittent appearance of a light source known as the `pirisma', known to a select few who have been secretly studying its existence over a period of forty years.Until now, the existence of these `other worlds' has posed no real threat to `Earth One'.  The project has been kept top secret, so as not to alarm the general public.  However, things take a turn for the worst when recent events on `Earth Two' lead to the arrival on Earth One of a crossover with a dangerous agenda of her own.In amongst trying to stop the `crosser' (whilst trying to distinguish her from her identical counterpart on Earth One), struggling to come to terms with the ramifications of events on one `earth' on events occurring in others, and aiming to comprehend the meaning of all this for individuals and their DNA-sharing counterparts, a gripping plot emerges with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing until the very end.A great story, truly unique and definitely worthwhile.  I enjoyed every second of it and look forward to the completion of what the author advises will eventually become a trilogy.